Raytheon Company

United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force

Ronald A Wagner

William C Brown, Jr

Edward J Sheldon

Peter F Barbella

Thomas D Shovlin

David A Marquis

Walter S Justice

A radar system having a transmitter for transmitting a series of radio frequency (RF) pulses with sequential, incrementally changing carrier frequencies. A receiver receives energy from multiple scattering points of an object reflecting such transmitted RF pulses. The received energy from each one of such scattering points includes a series of radio frequency (RF) pulses corresponding to the transmitted pulses delayed in time, .tau., from the transmitted pulses an amount proportional to the range to such scattering point and shifted in frequency from the carrier frequency an amount proportional to the velocity of such scattering point. The receiver includes a heterodyning section, responsive to a range tracking error signal, .epsilon..sub.R, and a velocity tracking error signal, .DELTA..sub.VEL, for producing a series of pulsed signals for each one of the scattering points. Each one of the pulsed signals for any given scatterer sequentially changes in phase, .phi., at a rate, .DELTA..phi./.DELTA.T, related to the range to the scattering point producing such one of the pulsed signal series. A processor, responsive to each of the series of pulsed signals produced by the heterodyning section, unambiguously determines from the frequency spectrum thereof the range tracking error signal, .epsilon..sub.R, and velocity tracking error signal, .DELTA..sub.VEL, for each of the scattering points as well as the range centroid.

Radar system

A radar fuzing system for use in a guided missile wherein the system is tuned in accordance with the estimated intercept closing velocity to permit the use of narrower bandpass filters and thereby reduce the probability of detecting pulse repetition frequency lines and very low Doppler returns from chaff bundles.

Radar fuze system

An improved radar receiver is shown to include a plurality of intermediate frequency and video frequency amplifiers, each one of such amplifiers being arranged to process received signals within a different range of amplitudes so that the overall dynamic range of such receiver may be equivalent to the dynamic range of a conventional radar receiver with automatic gain control.

Radar receiver

An improved monopulse receiver is shown to include an I.F. section wherein monopulse pairs of signals, meaning a sum and an elevation difference signal pair and a sum and an azimuth difference signal pair, are passed through paths arranged so that the signals making up each such pair are subjected to the same phase shift and amplification.

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Ronald A Wagner