Originally Posted by JFZ90
At typhoon at 700mm vs rafale at 600mm, the area is potentially 36% larger. This increase is directly proportional to the power returning to the receiver, for equivalent tx power, antenna gain, range and rcs. Does that translate into an 8% benefit in range?
It depends
What radar mode are you operating in? What tradeoffs have you made between pulse duration, duty ratio, scan speed? What tradeoffs have you made in antenna setup for sidelobe performance, ECM, etc? How far off-axis is the target? Have you got a swashplate design, or a fixed forward-only array? How sensitive are your receivers, how much loss is built into the system? How much does the aircraft nose cone distort the signal? How effective are your signal processing algorithms? How much processing power did you build into the signal and data processors to carry out those algorithms?