AN/APY-10

The AN/APY-10 is an American multifunction radar developed for the U.S. Navy's Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft.[1] AN/APY-10 is the latest descendant of a radar family originally developed by Texas Instruments, and now Raytheon after it acquired the radar business of TI, for Lockheed P-3 Orion, the predecessor of P-8.

The AN/APY-10 mechanically scanned radar is a development of Raytheon's AN/APS-149 radar.[2] Compared to the AN/APS-137, it is smaller in size, lighter, and uses less power.[1] The radar is optimized for maritime, littoral and overland surveillance.[3]

The AN/APY-10 is able to provide high resolution radar images in both overland and water modes. Available modes include color weather, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), periscope detection, and navigation. ISAR mode is said to be capable of both detecting, imaging and classifying surface targets at long range using a variety of resolutions.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "AN/APY-10 (United States), Payloads". Jane's Electronic Mission Aircraft. Jame's Information Group. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  2. ^ "AN/APY-10 (United States), Airborne surveillance, maritime patrol and navigation radars". Jane's Radar And Electronic Warfare Systems. Jane's Information Group. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Raytheon Awarded APY-10 Radar Contract for Six P-8A Aircraft". Deagel.com. PR Newswire. 3 February 2011. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.