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Emerging Trends in Radar: Airborne ISR
Airborne radar for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance has become an indispensable tool, found in both crewed and uncrewed platforms. These radars are usually multimode to engage missions for all manner of phenomenology detection and characterization, and have a long history of success for their intended purposes. Nevertheless, the advance of technology is facilitating enhanced exploitation of generally existing capabilities, as well as enhanced utility with new capabilities. The author identifies several areas of promising research and subsequent development that would provide significant and substantial capability enhancements.