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What is beam broadening used for in a radar array?

  • A.Reducing the side lobes during long range tracking of a target
  • B.Compensating for the frequency squint of a phase steered beam
  • C.Increasing the range resolution available from the transmitted pulse
  • D.Trading gain for a wider search beam during acquisition

Answer: D

Spoiling the aperture phase deliberately widens the transmit beam so a larger volume is illuminated at once, at the cost of gain, while narrow receive beams preserve the resolution. It is a standard search technique. Side lobes are managed by amplitude taper, squint is cured by true time delay, and range resolution follows from the pulse bandwidth rather than from anything the antenna does. Trading one performance dimension for another deliberately is what makes an electronically controlled aperture valuable.

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