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It puts me in mind of that Only Fools and Horses episode, when Del Boy installed a satellite dish stolen from Gatwick Airport on their balcony. All the Gatwick flights were diverting over Peckham. 🤣🤣

The fact that you can write your own custom software (within limits) makes this a universally powerful radar unit. What a well thought out trifecta of tech abilities combined in a single detection & jamming package. Love your videos

Hello man, I have first seen your channel awile back when doing research for number stations...It got me interested in HF radio, and passed my Ham radio technican class..now I have gotten my own HF station and antenna, an old Kenwood TS-440s with an auto tuner and a 20m endfed antenna. It'd be nice to hear you on the air one day! 73, Antonio 9A3CFE

We had portable cw doppler radars to protect GLCM missile deployment dispersed site locations in 1983-1987. US Army P2 units used these also to help defend their missile battery dispersed hide locations in the event of a war with the Warsaw Pact. The radar could detect approaching personnel to about 1000 meters in open terrain (across farm fields where we were in tree covered forested areas. That was more than enough warn then to ID and engage as necessary. During training missions, we had red opfor forces that would attempt to recon and then simulate ground attacks. Opfor used a simple counter measure of an AM radio tuned to static, so when the main beam of the side to side rotating radar would hit them, the radio would get noisy in the earpiece, so they'd freeze. no doppler velocity and thus no detection. They could use this creep-freeze tactic to slowly approach if they were very careful. So doppler radars can be defeated with good tactics and some low tech kit. Slower flying Aircraft can use beaming tactics to defeat Doppler AI radars as well, well demonstrated many times.

This is brilliant, Lewis! Your videos consistently blow me away. Not to sound like a broken record (remember those?), but the quality and thoroughness of your research and presentation is top-shelf. Cheers!

1. Develop expensive anti-drone RADAR system; 2. fly drones near airport runways; 3. sell a shitload of expensive anti-drone RADAR systems to airports; 4. $$$

EXCELLENT COVERAGE LEWIS! As someone from the military surveillance radar field I have been watching Blighter (and ealier Plextek) for many years. Unfortunately i never had to answer a requirement that would have needed them. You may be interested in the company called Aveillant which also has very interesting (but different) technology also with non-rotating antennas. They are also well worth checking out. Thales bought them a few years ago, because they also offer something quite unique. All the best, Rob in Switzerland

Excellent content. 👍 Many of these Radars are only 2D, but that is typical for search Radar systems. Going back to the early days of military Radar, it was quite standard to have a search Radar which provided detection, azimuth, and range as well as IFF stimulus, and then a second tracking Radar for more. Interesting targets would be interrogated by a secondary "height-finder" Radar to get the elevation and a 2nd source to verify the range, as well as to provide resistance to countermeasures. The Height-Finder would be rotated to the detected azimuth where it would do vertical sweeps to range the target. Being able to use phased arrays for azimuth and elevation is powerful indeed.

The last time I had a chat with a radar engineer was forty years ago and I was impressed with the way clutter was suppressed then, but this stuff is of a different order. You have put a hell of a lot of research into this very comprehensive and absorbing video. Thanks for your upload and time you must have put into it. As an aside, your mention of F1 telemetry reminded me of when I did some work in that part of the country. I was a subcontractor for Pacific Racing based in Thetford, and set up a radio system to provide telemetry for the Magneti Marelli equipment. Interesting stuff, and cutting edge at the time, but there again that was thirty years ago.

Absolutely brilliant was that Lewis! Love the technical ones you do. Keep up the great work.

As I get older, I enjoy learning more about this "get off my lawn" type of tech. 🙂

That is some amazing technology for sure! Thanks for explaining it to us, I enjoyed it very much.

There are 3 levels of surveillance: The level we have all agreed to live with, the level nobody has agreed to but They use anyway, and the level that is actually possible which is inescapable and could potentially have me vaporized by a satellite laser before finishing this paragr💥

The issue with target discrimination is if you are trying to determine animal or human 2D radar isn't enough you need that secondary VID using IR/EO sensors. Radar can only see movement and speed and make a guess on what it is based on RCS and that data. Speed gate can limit false returns from birds, and other moving clutter, but moving slower then that don't get seen.

Nobody's thought to install this on the southern coast of England to help inform French maritime patrols when small boats are being launched?

Very interesting info about these anti-drone systems. I have been interested in this since we started to have drones interfere with forest firefighting aviation.

I find radar and radio SO interesting and I don’t know why. I have a huge weird fear of large electrical equipment. I also have never studied any of this. No idea why it’s so fascinating.

Always makes my day when a, Ringway Manchester post hit's. There always of interest to me. And once again m8. Gratitude for introducing me to the wonderful world of all thing's radio! SUPERB. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

great info. many thanks (trivial one, 1.26W into 23dBi antenna is 252W eirp)

Not sure why youtube recommended this to me but the EE in me enjoys this greatly.

I've seen these in specific locations pointed in a particular direction. I had no idea exactly what they were until now. I just know they looked a lot like the same concept as a shotgun microphone to detect certain threats. I've always wondered why they don't just use a 1000 watt glorified WiFi router with beam forming on steroids to track and fry the transceiver on consumer grade drones. In theory, as long as you get the frequency just right, and you can focus enough power with pin point accuracy, you can melt the drone's antenna or the pre-amp in the receiver. It would be a last resort effort, because you're firing a beam of high power interference off into the horizon.

I'm surprised that the three helical antennas (log periodic?) for countermeasures are not enclosed in a radome because it is easy to identify what frequency range they are targeting from their dimensions. Perhaps they are not expecting most illegal operators to modify the drone's communication system to try and defeat them... UPDATE - they probably don't need to hide the inhibitor frequencies because they are well known and publicised: 433MHz, 915MHz, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz and GNSS.

How long before local councils find a use for them lol

Absolutely brilliant as usual👏👏

Getting scary Lewis. Arduino + sdr + microwave detector, 3d print Ant / feed horn. CCTV may soon be a thing of the past !

This is super cool. I have no need for such a setup but I want one now 😄

infantry radar! I remember the demo of the coyote we were shown, older gen M-STAR and a infrared camera/laser tripod on a 200m cable, another on a raising pole. Old cathode tube console in the back like a giant green fishbowl for a monitor. back it into a building and run the cables up to the 3rd story inside a window, petty cool kit. what's amazing is they can do so much, watch troops at a distance, pick up vehicles, medium-large UAV, helicopters, and even observe fall of shot for artillery.

I never knew I needed to know this, now I do and I'm a better person. Thanks Lewis! :-D

Awesome as always 🎉

So when are you looking to purchase one for the back garden?

Great content as always, Lewis.

Excellent video - massive research on your side. Great work Lewis.

Brilliant video ! Please make one about the Aaronia SDR equipment and drone detection systems.

Nice, just let we dont forget that is much easier to detect radar beaming head on, than for radar to pick up reflection from the target. Drone whit guidance on radar signal or even jamming signal whoud be a big problem. Kh-31 in miniature....

Turns out the gatwick incident wasnt even drones

interesting research....Cambridge, continues to be Britains tech powerhouse

Now I can finally know when the postman comes by. He seems to fool my Ring doorbell half the time. I'll get him now!

Fantastic content. Your level of detail is refreshing.Thank you!!

Back in 1967 in My RAF days I was operating a radarwith a range of about 250 Miles. 15 miles is binocular range.

At 03:00 in this video: *I ❤️ BLEEDAIR BLIMPS!!!!* {Great video, Lewis.}

I live only about a mile or so from Plextek. I always wondered what they did. A pretty unassuming building on the edge of an industrial area in a sleepy village on the Essex/Cambridgeshire border.

That’s an extensive report about a technology I did not know about. Should be relativity easy to jam or have a missile hunt it down quickly.

Doesn’t stop everything. Gatwick we proved that :)

Passive RF drone detection is also a big field that you might find interesting. It's an RF silent system, much smaller and more discrete; so much harder to detect/notice. (Source, I work on one as an engineer at LiveLink Aerospace in the UK! #notasalesperson)

CUAS guy here Blighter latest radar is dated (my opinion) you (American companies & allies anyway) can buy civillian available 3D AESA radar with 100+ degree horizontal scan and 75+ degree vertical scan capable of reaching 8+km for drones but be prepared to pay somewhere around 150k for a single unit. Smaller units capable of 800-1000M mini drones around somewhere around 75k. They also have higher angular accuracy than even the new blighter system. Of course, this is just for the radars, and not for any C&C Software or intervention & tracking systems. The largest difference is the coverage area is in the 3D Space and angular accuracy, and not just slices of the sky. Im being a bit ambiguous on purpose. Really freaking cool stuff. I have some of these units and they are absolutely astonishingly good. Radar is amazing. Smaller ground based radars are available also, which are fantastic for critical infrastructure, or other security needs. (

When i was a kid i lived near bell labs in holmdel where they worked on design for the nike missile that had a base right up the next hill in what is now holmdel park. I couldn't set for on the big fields surrounding that building without a security guy comming out. I asked once how they saw me because of all the foliage and he laughed as he said we got our radar.

There's some very clever shit out there!

Neat looking kit. Looks expensive. Should of named it Blinger®

Interesting! I picked up on a radar detector developed for the military use in Europe, probably surplus from the Bosnian war from what I have determined. It consisted of a handheld device resembling a small handheld police radar with a pair of rechargeable batteries and a simple earphone. I tested this against a Ka band police radar that I brought with me from the states. The unit is quite sensitive even the pulsed mode instant on technology. In general it would alert the user of the presence of antipersonnel radar. I wonder if these systems can be neutralized by radar seeking guided misses?

Not sure why I'm worried bit it feels like I should be🤷‍♂

I need one for my car

Feels like this could be a very good complement to ILS systems at airports

Your content never disappoints.

I love that you mentioned fans. In home automation ceiling fans are radars number one enemy! Due to mass production for cars the price is coming down and radar use in homes is exploding. A sub $100 detector can map multiple people in a room and detect breathing. This could be a real life saver in elder care where fall detection can be important.

Use microwave fractal antennas and a sweep across different frequencies with a wide band receiver and you could make it both incredibly difficult to jam and effectively a jammer in its own right. Nitride based amplifiers for the win.❤

I’ve come to the conclusion there are some very smart people out there

Great video! Love these interesting videos you do.

That is some awesome tech! As always thank you for the video. So happy to have found this channel and I am never disappointed with the content. Peaks my curiously and cements it in facts. Also I am pretty much blind so sorry about spelling ect...

First saw these at Farnborough many years ago!

Love the content Lewis

That's not impressive, my WIFE can detect me from 20 miles away!

Nice review of the Blighter system, keep up the good work.

Excellent!

Great video! Very interesting, especially the micro doppler signature detection...mind blown! 🤯

'Blighter' sounds like someone coming from Blighty!

Never seen these, another informatic video, thank you very much.

0:59 had to do a double take on the street image to realize it's from Hatanpää, Tampere, Finland and I literally cycle to work through this bit of road shown.

That was really fascinating. Thanks for the video.

It is a pity that they don't come in more colours. 🙂

Interesting subject. Another that you might like to explore is ground movement radar at airports.

Great intel

Another way to take joy out of life

Congrats on the 100k subs

Well done on the pronunciation THALES there😊

Plextek with the tag line " Exceptional technology to positively impact the future " makes me think of " Veridian Dynamics " ( look up the commercials )

really good video. great detail and impressive equipment

There is a fine line between radar, communications/ controls and DEW's lol

just saw you got past 100k! well earned lewis.

I WANT ONE!! Thank you Lewis!🎉

Gives a whole new meaning to " You little Blighter " Or Get back to Blighty !! Cheers

23Dbi is impressive gain.

DOH...That's going to stuff Amazon's new Drone package delivery service ...😱

Interesting, fortunately the cost these systems is falling as fast as the new threats proliferate. You can build your own sonar equivalent quite easily using a phased array of car reversing sensors, it's inexpensive and fun.

thank you

I bet you can fool it by crawling really slow in a full body latex suit.

This is extremely important, why no SERE videos talk about this?

Brilliantly informative!

Well-Done

So hopefully in 40 years i can afford an old snd hand unit to keep martian rabbits off of my martian carrots

Just have to hope the enemy doesn't use radar seeking weapons that basically fly down the radar beam before detonation.

superb video mate , very interesting , thanks !

I wonder how many K resolution is that camera ?

this is intresting. looking at current events in the world, the need grows. ukraine war turned out to be a game of drones and that spreads ideas on how to attack infrastructures or even worse, "soft targets" both military and civilian. sadly such systems dont come for cheap and are not available to all places that might be targeted.

Thanks

Loved the video being retired military but I was a medic so most of the vid went woosh over my thick Scottish scull (god knows his I got my foundation licence lol) keep the vids coming and don't know if you did it already years ago there were ptt phones mostly state side if yoh do vid on that one day I'd be a happy scotsman doing a Highland fling and hoping it's nit windy or too cold as don't want to embarrass masel. Keep the awsom vids coming

Well researched and explained, very interesting

Big Brother is watching you

Excellent stuff.

Sounds like drone manufacturers need to make there equipment jamming resistance and anti radar designs