DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANTENNA PLATFORM FOR LCA MULTB-MODE RADAR

摘要

Development of air-worthy APL was a challenging endeavor drawing upon expertise in the areas of controls, electronics, software, drives, structural analysis, fabrication technology, thermal engineering, quality assurance and software verification and validation. After years of trials and tribulations, first APL was successfully integrated with the MMR and flown in hack aircraft during May 2006. This was preceded by a 2-month long campaign of safety-of-flight tests during which the unit was tested for compliance under specified climatic, environmental and EMI envelope. User has now placed series production order with ECIL. With the total requirements of APLs and its variants expected to be a few hundreds, over the next few years, this is a precursor to a new product line and technology base at ECIL. As per the recent MoU, BARC will be assisting ECIL in the series production of these units.