OVERVIEW:  The Aida an airborne, short-range, air-to-air/air-to-ground  ranging radar,  operating in the NATO  "I/J"  (IEEE X-K ) band.


DETAILS: 

The Aida is a range-finding radar capable of automatically search, acquire, estimate range and track targets in air-to-air, air-to-sea and air-to-ground attacks. It has a fixed, horizontally polarized antenna with a dielectric lens.  Used in conjunction with a gyroscopic gunsight it supplies all the information for interception and attack with guns, rockets, bombs or missiles.


Specifications:

	Frequency:	8-20 GHz (I/J-band (NATO))
	PRF:		?? Khz (air-to-air)
	Pulse width:	?? µ sec (air-to-air)
	Power: 		80-100 kW (peak) 
	Scan Limits:	18° (conical)   
	Range:		8 nm
				

NOTES:  IOC: 1976.  The AIDA family is made up of French range-finding radars for retrofitting in aircraft that originally went into service without a radar. It can also be installed in pods.


SOURCES:   Janes's Avionics 1987-88  "Aida radar" pg. 20; 
