AESA Radar and Technology Developments
The technology features prominently in fighter competitions.
Lockheed Martin F-35C
Lockheed Martin F-35C


Since the emergence of active electronically scanning array (AESA) radars in the 1990s, their use has become an increasingly central feature sought by the users of modern fighter aircraft. Not only is having an AESA radar a first-order requirement for most new models of fighters in production now, but this technology is also being inserted as a retrofit option to upgrade aircraft already in service.