New Technologies Boost Ground-Radar Capabilities

摘要

In April 2022, a US Marine Corps (USMC) unit and an air-surveillance radar were moved at short notice from Norway to Lithuania in order to support NATO's air policing mission in the Baltic area. The redeployment from the Arctic to the Baltic was an impressive demonstration of the ability of NATO to provide additional radar capability at short notice to one of the alliance's smaller members, but it is also interesting because the equipment involved was a Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-80 Ground/ Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), a system that incorporates many of the advanced features now being fielded in modern surveillance radars.