A Three-Dimensional Phantom Track Generation for Radar Network Deception (January 2019)

One important issue when multiple cooperating electronic combat air vehicles (ECAVs) are used to generate phantom radar tracks in a radar network is the position inaccuracy, which is the fundamental reasons for the difference between a phantom track and a real track. According to this difference, a radar network can recognize the phantom track from the real target track. In order to solve this problem, first, two kinds of phantom tracks in three-dimensional space are developed from the generalized kinematic framework. Then, the effect of the inaccuracies of radar position and ECAVs position to the phantom track is considered in detail. Finally, the beam rider guidance method is used to compensate the track deviation. The scenario of phantom track generation and the influence factors of the maximum position deviation is simulated and analyzed particularly. The simulation results show that the deviation compensation method can reduce the recognition rate of the phantom track effectively.