AN/APG-69

This article does not contain any citations or references. Please improve this article by adding a reference. For information about how to add references, see Template:Citation.

Emerson Electric's AN/APG-69 is an X band coherent pulse doppler radar originally designed for the F-20 Tigershark aircraft. Northrop skipped over the APG-69 in favor of the General Electric AN/APG-67 for the F-20 project, but the APG-69 was used by a number of other F-5 operators, and other light fighter projects like the ALR Piranha.

Unlike Emerson's earlier radars, the APG-69 offered a complete suite of air-to-air and air-to-ground modes. The air-to-air modes included velocity search for long-range wide-angle searches, track-while-scan, single target track and dogfight modes that locked onto the closest target. The APG-69 was capable of guiding the AIM-7 Sparrow missile, making it the first of Emerson's offerings to reach production with beyond visual range capability. The air-to-ground modes included Doppler-Beam Sharpening mapping, moving target search and track, and sea-surface-search modes.

Specifications[]

Weight = 80 kg
Look-up = 30 nm (5sqm target)
Look-down = 20 nm (5sqm target)
MTBF = 200 hrs http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%200079.html

Notes[]

All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at AN/APG-69 and the edit history here.