...No Radar system is 100%, they’ll be lucky to detect and target 40% of the incoming.
“...No Radar system is 100%, they’ll be lucky to detect and target 40% of the incoming.”
And if one drone gets through, or an artillery shell...
It’s a DBF (digitial beam formed) high power microwave radar system, essentially. It bandies the words EMP about like it’s true EMP but is not.
True EMP requires an extremely wideband antenna (and therefore less directive), and in this case to target a single drone or sector of drones the DBF cannot be ‘wideband in the sense of an EMP’.
You generally can get 5-10% bandwidth on something like a phased array, maybe a little more with a DBF when using dipole like individual elements for the digital beam forming off the array elements.
So why the ‘EMP’ claim? What this system likely does is use high power DBF to directively hit a drone or drone sector with high power MW to either saturate the front ends of the drone receiver, or hopefully burn out drone receiver/control parts.
What if the drone comes at it at three feet off the ground?