Raytheon & CollinsAerospace Show off their PhantomStrike AESA Radar & TruNet Airborne radio at ADEX 2023

Among the equipment on display at the ADEX 2023 Show are Raytheon's PhantomStrike AESA radar model and Collins Aerospace's TruNet AR-1500 networked communications aerial radio.

 

                                         (Pic Courtesy : Raytheon & CollinsAerospace official websites)

The business has agreed to supply the PhantomStrike radar for its FA-50 aircraft to Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI). The deliveries are expected to begin in 2025, according to the business.

The PhantomStrike radar is more compact, lighter, and consumes less power. It weighs less than 150 pounds and provides the heavyweight performance required for outstanding battlespace situational awareness at nearly half the weight of contemporary AESA radars.

PhantomStrike provides excellent radar performance at roughly half the cost of standard fire control radars, thanks to digital beam formation and steering, multimode flexibility, and interleaved ground and air targeting. The radar is intended to be fitted onto any platform, such as a light attack aircraft, rotary wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, or stationary platforms. PhantomStrike's open mission systems architecture allows for maintenance-free upgrades.

Collins Aerospace's TruNet AR-1500 networked communications airborne radio, which the company is demonstrating for the Republic of Korea's armed forces, has software-defined capabilities for country-specific customisation. From sovereign waveforms to transnational interoperability and high encryption security, the AR-1500 provides custom functionality in a form factor that makes integration easier, faster, and less expensive.

TruNet AR-1500 is the most recent and powerful completely exportable software defined radio receiver-transmitter in the TruNet networked communications system family, which also includes ground and handheld radios, sophisticated networking waveforms, applications, ancillaries, and services. It is the first system, according to the business, to provide safe connection between ground and aerial units throughout the full battlespace.

RTX's participation at the ADEX 2023 Show will also include interactive exhibits such as Pratt & Whitney's F-135 ECU engine touchscreen, Raytheon's land, air, and sea defense interactive, and space capabilities interactive, as well as Collins Aerospace's video presentation of the Tactical Combat Training System pod.

(With inputs from GBP)