Lithuania's AMBER-1800 Air Surveillance Radar

AMBER-1800 Air Surveillance Radar
Ground-based mobile VHF-band radar AMBER-1800 provides automatic deployment on prepared sites and is designed for detection of air targets, determination of their coordinates and distribution of radar information to consumers. Transmitter and receiver of AMBER-1800 radar are solid-state.
Functions of AMBER-1800:
● automatic detection of air targets and determination of their coordinates (plots: azimuth, range);
● automatic generation of tracks and tracking of air targets in specified areas of airspace;
● displaying of video, plots and tracks, automatic distribution of air situation to consumers over provided data links;
● automatic issuance of the air target elevation measurement commands to radio height-finders, correlation of measured elevation with the tracks;
● recording and storage of air situation and interfaces of radar operators;
● control of radar operation modes, technical monitoring and diagnostics.
Radar consists of two vehicles:
● Vehicle No. 1 - Hardware cabin with main electronic equipment;
● Vehicle No. 2 - Vehicular platform with leveling system carrying antenna mast assembly (AMA) and deployment system, antenna-feeder system, two electric power plants.
Main characteristics:
● Significantly greater detection range due to a greater RCS of targets, especially low-sized (cruise missiles) and low-contrast (“Stealth").
● Antenna - a stacked array of dipole-slot antennas with linear horizontal polarization.
● Fully automatic deployment/stowing down on site of operation in less than 10 minutes.
● Fully solid-state, fail-soft operation, latest technology signal generation and processing.
● Sustains 35 m/s windspeed and up to 10 mm icing.