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by The Armed Republic of Gonswanza. . 15 reads.

Flemmings F-10E: To See What Can't Be Seen

Hailing from Flemmings electronics and scanning systems (FESS), this new radar array is totally-not-stolen from Chinese tech, nope.

Well, okay, even I'll admit, the exact details on HOW Gonswanza got this is unknown, but it's rumored to be a repeat of what got us the Long and Short strike missiles. Regardless, this radar could be rather revolutionary, given the unique components used along with advanced technology that allows it to cover UHF, L, C and S bands which is combined with a unique method of combatting and targeting jammers.

Given it's a significant upgrade for radar systems already present in the Gonswanzan arsenal, there's an ongoing program to try to extend the range further for anti-aircraft systems, along with anti-drone and anti-missile systems as well.

That aside, the technical specs are limited given its fairly recent deployment and development (within the last 10 years, supposedly), hence, information is rather scant.

Deployment time is rumored to be within 1 minute of the vehicle stopping, for the truck-mounted variant. Within 5 minutes for a more permanent ground station variant. This includes deploying the antenna and turning it on with systems warming up. Supposedly.

The rumored maximum range is ~900km, though what isn't specified is if it's against aircraft, missiles, or anything in general. But demonstrations against Skats and S-70s have proven that it can in fact detect drones meant to be extremely low profile. Tested against the J-102 and J-107, it was also fully capable of picking up both even in spite of the J-107 using active jammers to try to "fool" the system, all the way out to the maximum range. This is per a limited press release, of course, though I'd be damned if it was false.

Of course, this is the first of many other radars from FESS, being wrapped up as a system package known simply as "Project Jormungandr".

Image below: The F-10E, deployed from a truck. Normally, there'd be a smaller vehicle nearby serving as a mobile control center. But the F-10E can also operate independently, as part of a network, per FESS.

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