1. Ground defense radar

1.1 Ground defense radar mission

Ground defense radars are designed to detect aircraft of all kinds (planes, helicopters, missiles, drones, etc.) that may pose a threat.

Depending on the size of the area to be protected and the threat, the radars used have longer or shorter ranges and are integrated into different defense systems:

• radars that protect a country, or at least a large part of a territory, are long-range radars, typically instrumented to cover ranges of 400 to 500 km. This is the domain of air defense;

• smaller areas are protected by radars integrated into ground-air defense systems. Depending on their range, a distinction is made between :

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