Grifo E
Fire Control E-Scan Pulse Doppler Multimode Airborne Radar
Leading in the airborne radar market with over 60 years of experience in radar design, development, and production, we deliver truly state-of-the-art radar systems.
With over 450 units sold and more than 100,000 operational flight hours, the GRIFO Radar family, a fourth-generation X-band coherent pulse-Doppler multimode-multirole fire-control radar, provides advanced performance to new and upgraded aircraft.
The GRIFO E is the latest version of the GRIFO radar family and features a wider set of advanced and up-to-date capabilities and provides remarkable levels of situational awareness.
Furthermore, thanks to its modular architecture, based on a configurable number of compact Line Replaceable Units, GRIFO E can be easily customized and integrated adapting it to platform constraints.
The combination of cutting edge-technologies and modularity makes GRIFO E a powerful fire control radar that can be proposed for any Fighter or LCA.
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- Key Benefits
- Key Features
- Technical Specifications
Operational Benefits
- A broad suite of field-proven air-to-air, air-to-surface, and navigation modes supporting air defense and strike missions
- Long-range detection and tracking of multiple targets in all scenarios: look-up and look-down, any altitude, any aspect
- High-resolution imaging: sub-metric SAR, MTI® on SAR and ISAR
- Wide scan sector in azimuth and elevation
- Fully controlled through avionic bus, for HOTAS and HMD designation
- Modern, effective, flexible, and operationally proven
Design Benefits
- Multiple channel coherent receiver for advanced adaptive radar processing techniques
- Air-/liquid-cooled
- Wideband waveform for excellent high-resolution performance
- Four waveforms (LPRF, MPRF, MPRF look-up, HPRF), all including range and velocity de-stagger for optimal target detection in any clutter condition
- Modular software architecture for radar modes update and customization
- Easily customizable to overcome aircraft limitations (nose dimension, power, and cooling)
Weapon System Integration
- Multiple target tracking supporting accurate weapon aiming
- Compatibility with modern IR missiles (e.g. AIM-9L M-X,
Python 4) - Capable of BVR missile guidance
- Support of CCIP and CCRP through precise air-to-surface ranging
- AESA with high-efficiency low-consumption GaN technology
- Multi-mode, multi-role X-band
- Multiple channels fully pulse Doppler processed
- High-speed DSP capacity
- Simultaneous processing of modes
- Full set of ECCM provisions
- Tracking accuracy supporting missile release and guidance
- Growth capability to extend the existing features, including sensor fusion with IRST
- High scalability through absorption/cooling tuning/adjustment to meet aircraft constraints
- High reliability for reduced maintenance and lower through-life support costs
- Low overall weight and consumption
General
- Antenna size: Customizable to optimize installation on aircraft
- Weight: 105 kg to 160 Kg, depending on antenna size
- Absorbed power: 3.4 kVA to 7 kVA, depending on antenna size
- Cooling: Liquid and air-cooled
- Frequency: X-band
- Scan Coverage: Exceeding ± 60° (azimuth/elevation)
Key Parameters
- Track while scan - 24 targets tracked
- Track formation range versus fighter-sized targets from 40 NM to 75 NM
- Look-up detection range versus fighter-sized targets from 45 NM to 85 NM
Modes
Air-to-air
- Track & Search
- Track While Scan
- Range While Search (Normal, Adaptive)
- Velocity Search
- Spot
- Multiple Target Track (up to 8 targets)
- Single target track
- Situation Awareness Mode
- Raid assessment
Air Combat
- Air Combat
- Slewable scan
- Vertical
- Boresight
- Wide
- Narrow
Air-to-surface
- Real Beam Ground Map
- Doppler Beam Sharpening
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), with MTI®
- Air-to-Ground Ranging
- Fixed Target Track
- Ground Moving Target Indicator and Track
- Sea Surface Search and Track
- Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) on Seaborne and Airborne targets
- Simultaneous A/S-A/A mode
Navigation Support
- Beacon interrogation
- Weather Avoidance
- Terrain Avoidance (fit for Autom. Terrain Following)
- Simultaneous WA/GM
ECCM Capabilities
- Low antenna sidelobes
- Guard channel fully processed
- Monopulse antenna
- Multi channels fully processed for adaptive rejection of multiple Jammers
- Low peak power; pulse compression
- Random and adaptive frequency agility
- DOJ, HOJ and AOJ
- Provisions against
- Range gate/velocity gate stealers
- Noise jammers
- CW jammers