Marines get improved air-defense radar simulators.

• Author: Foster, Sharon
• Position: Tech talk - Brief Article

To improve their capabilities in the suppression of enemy air defenses, the Marine Corps is upgrading the ground targets used in live exercises. The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command, in Quantico, Va., has fielded four production models of the Radar Environmental Simulator, made by Sensis Corporation, of DeWitt, N.Y.

To make the training more realistic, RES injects infrared signals containing target, clutter and electronic counter measure returns.

The RES can generate scenarios containing...