The AN/TPQ-53 counter-fire radar has demonstrated its ability to identify and track UAS and pass that information to a command and control (C2) node, providing both air surveillance and counter fire ...

Until recently phased array radar has been very expensive, used only for military applications where the cost of survival weighs in the balance. With the advent of low-cost microwave devices and ...

The AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) radar system is reaching full rate production under a new $1.6 million Army contract with Lockheed Martin. Meanwhile, Lockheed already has plans for a new generation of Q-53 ...

NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana National Guard’s 1-141st Field Artillery Battalion recently completed critical upgrades to its two AN/TPQ-53 radar systems at the Unit Training Equipment Site at Camp ...

Phased array antenna systems are at the cusp of ubiquity. We now see Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna systems on WiFi routers. Soon phased array weather radar systems will help to predict ...

Lockheed Martin's AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar has demonstrated a capability to identify and track UAVs, passing that information to friendly command centers. The test occurred during the Army's recent ...

The SBX, shown here on a cargo vessel in Texas, practiced two days of "weather avoidance" when Hurricane Emily arrived in the Gulf of Mexico during 2005 testing. The range of the array inside the dome ...

Netherlands is supplying the Thales Squire system to Ukraine. (Thales Nederland) The Netherlands Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to supply two Squire manportable 2D ground surveillance radars and five AN ...

The current network of weather radars in the United States was installed in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. There are nearly 160 weather radars in the network. The radars are the NEXRAD WSR-88D ...

Phased array radar weather forecasting reached an operational milestone on April 28, when Norman forecasters used ATD radar to issue an earlier EF-2 tornado warning for Caney, Oklahoma -- faster than ...

(Phys.org) —Radar systems today depend increasingly on phased-array antennas, an advanced design in which extensive grids of solid state components direct signal beams electronically. Phased array ...