next-generation radar

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next-generation radar

[‚nekst ‚jen·ə‚rā·shən ′rā‚där]

(meteorology)

A Doppler radar, called WSR-88D, that enables forecasters to detect and give early warning for potentially severe weather. Abbreviated NEXRAD.

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The Radar Operations Center (ROC) is a part of the National Weather Service and is the home of the Next-Generation Radar or NEXRAD.

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It is competing to deliver the Army's next-generation radar system, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS).

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The plane, a next-generation radar jamming jet, will take its first flight later this month and join the Navy's fleet in 2009.

Aircraft News - North America

Operating at substantial repetition rates, the CLIA was used to power an L-band relativistic magnetron at a 1-GW peak, 6-kW average level; an S-band frequency-agile klystron at a 0.1-GW peak, 200-W average; and an L-band klystron at a 1-GW, 10-kW average power.(5) The impact of such power sources in next-generation radar systems or jammers, while significant, is beyond the scope of this article.

Parry and thrust: the radar/EW duel

Honeywell will supply RDR-4B systems, which can be upgraded to the next-generation radar system when this is available in about 2004.