Study on the use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (ARP) as NCom's MAGE platform to alert Ground Surveillance Radars (RVT)

Abstract

The current paper was elaborated with the

purpose of verifying the possibility of using a

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) as platform of

Electronic Support Measures (ESM) to perform

radar alert actions. Therefore, a methodology of

bibliographic research was adopted, searching

sources of knowledge that corroborated the

possibility of using drones

as a platform for a radar alert equipment to

detect regions illuminated by radars of terrestrial

surveillance. Initially, we presented basic

concepts of the operation of the equipment

analyzed in the study, as

well as the technical data used for the simulation

in the HTZ Warfare software. Then, it i was

presented the result of the case study of a radar

alert action, performed by a civilian radar

detector, UNIDEN R3, boarded on the DJI

Matrice 200 aircraft, with rotating wings,

targeting the Terrestrial Surveillance Radar

(TSR) SENTIR M20 used by the Brazilian Army,

exposing the possibilities and limitations of the

equipments.