The Thales air defence fire control radar Flycatcher Mk2 is equipped with sophisticated 4D multi-beam radar, which combines high detection probability with low false alarm rate. It also has co-located surveillance and track radar, which makes it ideal to prevent errors in target hand-over and to minimize the number of radar locations required to protect the area. The Flycatcher Mk2 is capable of providing not only weapon control for air defence guns, but also target information for Man Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS).
Flycatcher Mk2 design has been particularly focused on minimising the detection and engagement time of targets appearing suddenly at short distances. The excellent reaction time is made possible by its unique technologies: multi-beam technology and combined antenna technology, which avoids complex and lengthy calculation to compensate misalignments of different antennas on traditional 2 antenna systems. The co-located and co-axial mounting of track and surveillance radar assures no errors in angular references and the smallest possible acquisition area for the track radar during target hand-over from surveillance to track.
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