Galileo Avionica, the Italian division of Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems, is showcasing a new family of airborne sensors named “Gabbiano” (Italian for seagull). The modular airborne surveillance radars tap the combined expertise of the Finmeccanica group’s newly combined Italian and UK sensor businesses, which in the past have developed light maritime radars such as the RDR 1500 and the APS-717. The new systems will be adaptable to a variety of platforms ranging from unmanned aerial vehicles to maritime patrol aircraft.
The Gabbiano is an X-band pulse Doppler radar that can provide medium-range maritime detection capability, as well as offer search-and-rescue (SAR), intelligence, surveillance and airborne reconnaissance (ISAR) modes and a ground moving target indicator (GMTI). The system’s core is a receiver exciter processor that can be coupled to transmitters of varying capacity and to antennas of increasing diameter.
