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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Do you have a reliable source for that?
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Any AESA page can give you a good run down on it, though the F-22's is a more advanced version of AESA with probably a 250+ (large target) nmi range. With AESA, you even have built in jamming and hacking tools. You can theoretically overload a missile sites computer systems with it. Kind of like a power surge.
Maybe it is not 50, but 1000:
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The F-22's Northrop Grumman/Texas Instruments-built AN/APG-77 radar is an active-element, electronically scanned (that is, it does not move) array of over 1000 finger-sized transmitter / receiver modules. Each module weights ca 15g and has a power output of over 4W. The APG-77 is capable of changing the direction, power and shape of the radar beam very rapidly, so it can acquire target data, and in the meantime minimizing the chance that the radar signal is detected or tracked.
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http://www.f22fighter.com/radar.htm
Manufactures site:
http://www.es.northropgrumman.com/so.../f22aesaradar/
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