Next-Generation Airborne Radar Demands Powerful Computers

by Ben Ames Military & Aerospace Electronics, February 2005 When Air Force pilots steer the E-10A Joint Surveillance Target Arrack Radar System (Joint STARS) surveillance airplane near battlefields sometime after 2013, its powerful radar will track evasive cars and wagons through city streets, and simultaneously track low-flying cruise missiles. That radar is called the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP), and it relies on massive onboard computers. Read the article