AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR)
One Radar — Many Missions
Leveraging a legacy of excellence in active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars and 50 years of experience in ground-to-air radar, Northrop Grumman’s AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR provides new and advanced capabilities able to detect, track and target the world’s most sophisticated airborne threats in highly contested environments, today.
This long-range, high-performance pulse doppler radar consolidates the air surveillance, air defense and counterfire target acquisition missions into one package – able to complete all these functions simultaneously and react with the speed needed for today’s battlespace.
The AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR is operationally deployed with the United States Marine Corps, United States Air Force, and is currently in full-rate production to meet emerging needs for the United States and select international customers. Its proven capability and open architecture interoperability with all U.S., NATO, and other command and control systems ensures seamless integration into modern integrated air and missile defense architectures.
The AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR utilizes S-band radar operations to provide long range, four-dimensional, 360-degree total surveillance for air and missile defense, fire control, and air traffic control. With the ability to establish fire control quality tracks on a single scan, the radar delivers the data necessary for air defense weapons to destroy airborne threats including cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR also determines launch points of hostile fire, such as rocket, artillery, or mortar fire, for counterstrikes against the sources of each threat. In addition, it performs air traffic control missions with ease, acting as a ground-based, multi-functional manager of flight operations.
This gallium nitride (GaN) AESA radar is engineered with open systems architecture, allowing for easy and affordable introduction of new hardware, software and mission capabilities. It is also highly survivable, providing anti-jamming capabilities, as well as high mobility, requiring minimal air or ground transport resources to change locations.
Through operational deployments with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, the AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR has been proven in the field. Taking years of AESA development – the same technology that enables high performing airborne AESA radars such as the APG-83 and APG-81 – and combining it with the knowledge that produced predecessor ground radars such as the AN/TPS-78, Northrop Grumman has created the most advanced ground-to-air radar in the field today.
A proven radar for all missions, the AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR stands ready to meet emerging needs in the U.S. and internationally.
Scott Cahoon
Scott.Cahoon@ngc.com
410-440-8339
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