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Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System [1 record]

Record 1 2001-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Weapon Systems
  • General Conduct of Military Operations
CONT

JOINT STARS. In its wide-area surveillance moving-target indicator mode, the Joint STARS radar can detect, classify, and track thousands of moving targets in an area nearly the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined - more than 40,000 square kilometers per minute.

CONT

The Air Force has long fielded the heavyweights of information war, systems such as the U-2, AWACS, Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), and Rivet Joint.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Conduite générale des opérations militaires
CONT

[...] les renseignements fournis par ses satellites-espions et ses systèmes de surveillance JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) [...]

Key term(s)
  • système JSTARS

Spanish

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