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Radar Cooling Systems

Radar cooling tends to be fairly well provisioned for at the start of aircraft projects. Most of the initial specification work has been complete and the overall heatloads are pretty well defined. The aircraft may have a dedicated cooling system which will have been sized (within the usual constraints) to cope with the Radar dissipation. Not much problem there then. RFT have been involved in the sizing of the aircraft cooling systems and also with the associated thermal analysis of the actual Radar transmitter, receiver and processors.

The fun can really start when you go through a Radar upgrade program. The power density within the new Radar will invariably be higher than the system that it replaces, meaning that the Radar cooling system will also need to be looked at if the Radar units are not going to overheat. Not always an easy task when power and space are extremely limited. Again RFT Systems have been successfully involved with both the airframe and Radar side of things. Our experience with previous programs can help save you both time and expense.

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