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DRBV 27 Astral

Country of Origin: France

The Astral is a long-range, 3-D surveillance, acquisition and targeting radar. It is based on the DRBV 26C Jupiter (see separate database entry) and uses a similar, but doubled, solid-state transmitter.

The software is programmed in Ada. Astral's digital pulse compression employs Doppler speed filtering (phase-coded).

This method, together with frequency agility, and burst-to-burst Doppler processing (both specific and auto-adaptive) to enhance reception and diminish the...

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