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Patriot radar upgrade on offer

29th March 2016 - 14:43 GMT | by Scott Gourley in Huntsville

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A new AESA radar antenna is being offered for the Patriot air defence system that could improve its capabilities.

Using Gallium Nitride (GaN) the full demonstration prototype AESA radar was displayed at the AUSA Global symposium in March.

Raytheon, which builds Patriot, promised last year at the AUSA Global symposium in 2015 that it intended to offer a new radar solution for the system.

Douglass Burgess, director of Patriot AESA at Raytheon described the GaN-based AESA design as ‘a new technology in radars’ and although Patriot isn’t the only system using it the timing is right for this technology insertion

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