Design Challenges of Realizing An Active Radar Seeker at Ka-Band

Active Radar Seekers are missile borne radars with a definite task of homing guidance of the mother interceptor missile towards the incoming ballistic missile. An Active Radar Seeker developed at Ka-Band is presented in this paper. This paper presents in brief details about the requirements of seeker, Challenges in realizing various subsystems, Integrated System Testing and Results. An attempt has also been made to model the crucial Seeker subsystems and the integrated model results are presented. The results of the model and the Integrated Seeker are in very close agreement, proving the validity of the mathematical model.