An introduction to the subject for non-specialists: engineers, technicians, pilots, and aerospace industry marketing, public relations, and customer support personnel. Also a reference for specialists in the field. The completely rewritten and revised Second Edition updates the original published by the Hughes Aircraft Company.

Includes index.

Part I: Overview of Airborne Radar -- Chapter 1: Basic Concepts -- Chapter 2: Approaches to Implementation -- Chapter 3: Representative Applications -- Part II: Essential Groundwork -- Chapter 4: Radio Waves and Alternating Current Signals -- Chapter 5: Key to a Nonmathematical Understanding of Radar -- Chapter 6: The Ubiquitous Decibel -- Part III: Radar Fundamentals -- Chapter 7: Choice of Radio Frequency -- Chapter 8: Directivity and the Antenna Beam -- Chapter 9: Pulsed Operation -- Chapter 10: Detection Range -- Chapter 11: The Range Equation, What It Does and Doesn't Tell Us -- Chapter 12: Pulse Delay Ranging -- Chapter 13: Pulse Compressions -- Chapter 14: FM Ranging -- Part IV: Pulse Doppler Radar -- Chapter 15: Doppler Effect -- Chapter 16: Spectrum of Pulsed Signal -- Chapter 17: Mysteries of Pulsed Spectrum Unveiled -- Chapter 18: Sensing Doppler Frequencies -- Chapter 19: How Digital Filters Work -- Chapter 20: The Digital Filter Bank and the FFT -- Chapter 21: Measuring Range Rate -- Part V: Return from the Ground -- Chapter 22: Sources and Spectra of Ground Return -- Chapter 23: Effect of Range and Doppler Ambiguities on Ground Clutter -- Chapter 24: Separating Ground-Moving Targets from Clutter -- Chapter 25: The Crucial Choice of PRF -- Part VI: Air-to-Air Operation -- Chapter 26: Low PRF Operation -- Chapter 27: Medium PRF Operation -- Chapter 28: High PRF Operation -- Chapter 29: Automatic Tracking -- Part VII: High-Resolution Ground Mapping and Imaging -- Chapter 30: Meeting High-Resolution Ground Mapping Requirements -- Chapter 31: Principles of Synthetic Array (Aperture) Radar -- Chapter 32: SAR Design Considerations -- Chapter 33: SAR Operating Modes -- Part VIII: Radar in Electronic Warfare -- Chapter 34: Electronic Countermeasure (ECM) Techniques -- Chapter 35: Electronic Counter Countermeasures (ECCM)Chapter 36: Electronic Warfare Intelligence Functions -- Part IX: Advanced Concepts -- Chapter 37: Electronically-Steered Array Antennas (ESAs)Chapter 38: ESA Design -- Chapter 39: Antenna RCS Reduction -- Chapter 40: Advanced Radar Techniques -- Chapter 41: Advanced Waveforms and Mode Control -- Chapter 42: Low Probability of Intercept (LPI)Chapter 43: Advanced Processor Architecture -- Part X: Representative Radar Systems -- Chapter 44: Reconnaissance & Surveillance -- Chapter 45: Fighter & Attack -- Chapter 46: Strategic Bombing -- Chapter 47: Attack Helicopter -- Chapter 48: Transport/Tanker Navigation -- Chapter 49: Civil Applications -- Appendix.