Lockheed Advanced Multimission Sensor System AMSS

[flateric]

“Lockheed AMSS proposal. Lockheed's Advanced Multimission Sensor System proposal for a Carrier based AEW aircraft is interesting as it employs a fixed three sided dorsal radome covering what would be three phased array antennas. Phased arrays are built up of thousands of miniature receive / transmit elements which allow nearly instantaneous electronically controlled pointing of very low sidelobe beams, with good frequency agility. This will provide high resistance to jamming while also defeating most Anti-Radiation Missile seekers which home in on a radar's sidelobe transmissions.”

 

[flateric]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/356888593975Can't insert *.webp attachments right now

 

[Antonio]

 

[lastdingo]

The graphic shows what's otherwise known as common support aircraft artist's impression.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/lockheed-nsa-and-csa-projects.3909/

 

[Scott Kenny]

I remember seeing writeups in PM etc about 3-sided radar antennas. Most were PESAs.

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What the heck is the non-AEW carrying under the wing? Too pointy to be a Harpoon, but I don't want to say it's a Standard-ARM...

 

[aim9xray]

The graphic shows what's otherwise known as common support aircraft artist's impression.

The artist being Ralph McQuarrie (!)