Reutech Groups

Products & Services :: 3D Surveillance Systems

The ESR 3xx range is a family of fully coherent 3D medium and long-range solid-state L-band surveillance and air defence radars. All products in this range use planar array antennas to form a number of spatially encoded beams in order to extract height information in real time.

The 150 km range ESR 360VX system is a 3D local warning air defence radar derived from the highly successful ESR 360 air surveillance radar delivered to the South African Air Force for evaluation in 1995. This system combines high update rate target information from primary radar and IFF to air picture management and fire control stations located within a self-contained high mobility armoured shelter.

The 200 km range ESR 360L system provides high accuracy 3D air surveillance and Ground Control Intercept (GCI) capability to operators housed in remote display shelters. This system makes use of a solid-state distributed transmitter and receiver housed within a composite-material antenna structure. High mast height allows performance unimpeded by nearby obstructions, thereby enhancing suitability for operation in the southern African environment. This system has, since 1997, been operated in numerous trials with the South African Air Force, and is currently undergoing further enhancements and systemisation.

Technology developed for the ESR 360 variants has also been applied in the ESR 380. This system is a 400 km extended-range 3D air surveillance radar equally suited for mobile and fixed-site operation, and utilises advanced signal processing techniques in a 9-beam simultaneous-lobing configuration.

All systems are available with integral Identification Friend or Foe (IFF), as well as a comprehensive Electronic Counter Countermeasures (ECCM) suite.