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Radonislav said:

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Biz geçen yıl Çelik Kubbe'nin önemli bir parçası olan ALP 300-G Erken İhbar Radarı'nı üretip tasarlayarak ilk defa envantere verdik. Bu, Çelik Kubbe'nin hava sahasındaki tespitlerini yapan sensör tarafını oluşturuyor. 650 kilometrenin üzerinde menzile sahip bir radardan bahsediyoruz.

ALP-300G has a range of 650km @sequ

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When it was tracking ISS at (almost) 800km, it was scanning in a 120 degree horizontal arc detecting multiple targets from 200km to 750km! Its instrumented range is a whopping 1000km!



No wonder ALP 500-G has a "restricted" range of 750km...

And as CENK 600-N is most likely going to be a navalized ALP 500-G... (don't get confused by the brochure Aselsan put out, it still has the old range figures of CAFRAD)

sequ said:

When it was tracking ISS at (almost) 800km, it was scanning in a 120 degree horizontal arc detecting multiple targets from 200km to 750km! Its instrumented range is a whopping 1000km!

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No wonder ALP 500-G has a "restricted" range of 750km...

And as CENK 600-N is most likely going to be a navalized ALP 500-G... (don't get confused by the brochure Aselsan put out, it still has the old range figures of CAFRAD)

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Well, that's a beast

test1979 said:

It is very likely that the 346B uses GAN MMICs. Please note that at the 2014 Radar Show, the designer of the 346 radar, Nanjing Institute 14, exhibited the SLC-2 radar using GAN, which also uses the S band like the 346 radar, and the 055 just started construction in 2014.
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totenchan said:

Frankly this does not mean anything unless you have some evidence that the two radars are related. CETC has dozens of radars operating in the S-band, and this radar in particular is primarily a counter-battery radar, which is quite distant from a ship-based air defense radar.

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test1979 said:

Apparently the official SLC-2 display I was given stated that its combat targets include artillery shells, tactical aircraft, drones, and helicopters.
I don't quite understand why you think this radar is not used for air defense.
What is even more difficult for me to understand is that when a design unit can use GAN on land radars with weaker heat dissipation capabilities, you think it will not be used on larger shipborne radars?
What is the reason?

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vincent said:

So the PLA is using GaN tech on a counter-battery radar but not on the radars installed on its most advance cruiser? Does that logic makes sense to you?

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And that is exactly the same approach the Turks are taking.

What does their latest mobile gap-filler radar (ALP 110-G), artillery locating radar (STR 700-G), SHORAD radar (KALKAN 050-G) and even their fixed long range EW radar (ALP 500-G) have in common?

They are all S-band and (almost all) GaN based AESA radars. And they are all capable of CRAM and air surveillance:



ALP 110-G


STR 700-G



KALKAN 050-G


ALP 500-G



*I have no doubt their mobile EW radar (ALP 300-G) is also capable of CRAM functions. I lack source to back it up though.

First module of the 5th I class frigate has been placed in the dock:

TB2 in action over Syria, one got shutdown by Kurds forces.