Nikolaj A. Golov1, Vladimir P. Savchenko2, Vadim A. Usachev3 1,3

 Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Moscow, Russia),  2  JSC «Radio Engineering Institute named after Academician A.L. Mints» (Moscow, Russia) 1 2

The ongoing global process of changing technological paradigms gives rise to a structural crisis in the economies of the leading countries of the world, associated with the exhaustion of growth opportunities for the existing technological paradigm and the formation of technological growth trajectories for a new one. The consequence of these processes is an avalanche-like increase in the level of military and terrorist threats, carried out by nationalist and international groups of very different composition, using technologies previously inaccessible to them. It has become common practice to use high-tech products for terrorist and sabotage actions, such as elements of high-precision weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles, modern technical means of reconnaissance, communications and control, modern network technologies. Ensuring protection against these new threats in scale and significance is becoming one of the most important problems that each state is solving in the process of transition to a new technological order. For such a transition, a qualitative breakthrough must be made in the field of technologies for receiving, transmitting and processing large amounts of data, which allow quickly, timely, accurately and reliably assess the environment in the event of the emergence and development of external threats.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the trends in the development of electronic and radio-photonic technologies in advanced radar systems.

The analysis of trends in the development of electronic and radio-photonic technologies is presented. It is shown that the introduction of radio-photon technologies makes it possible to improve the tactical and technical characteristics of information systems by expanding the feature space for object recognition. An approach to unification of the processing path is proposed.

information for information sensors of various frequency ranges and to create based on the principles radio photonics of ultra-wideband radars of the traditional system series, as well as a new class of radio imaging systems.

The basic principle of radio photonics is the transfer of the spectrum to the optical carrier. This expands the possibilities of postprocessing in both spectral and time domains. This principle of construction allows you to save significant funds both in the development and in the operation of radio-technical products and systems.

Golov N.A., Savchenko V.P., Usachev V.A. Radiophotonics in advanced radar systems. Achievements of modern radioelectronics. 2020. V. 74. № 12. P. 17–31. DOI: 10.18127/j20700784-202012-02. [in Russian]

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