Summary: Modern radar techniques have found wide application in the fields of aeronautics and guided missiles and to make full use of these techniques the designer of modern aircraft and missile systems requires a knowledge of the basic radar principles. This paper is an introduction to these principles. Four main functions of radar are discussed, namely the detection of objects in the beam, measurement of range, information on direction, and the use of the doppler principle to measure velocity and to distinguish moving objects. The discussion is confined to primary or self-contained radars although the principles are applicable to navigation aids such as Gee and Loran. The paper concludes with a brief description of the radome problem.
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