STRAITGARD is the world’s first up-mast redundant radar with technology’s flexibility that assures the best possible detection capability in any weather condition.

Among the other characteristics, key strengths to be highlighted are:

• Native SNMP
• DDS ready with embedded Linux O.S. for Navy applications
• Effective SART / RACON Triggering
• Solid State Power Management
• Best reliability with cost effective embedded redundancy on any configuration
• Reduced footprint
• Ease and quick to install with ICS’s Plug&Play concept, zeroing any possible installation mistake
• Unbeatable reliability and reduced maintenance (no transmission belt, magnetic encoder, …);
• Designed as a lower replaceable unit in order to make repair easy and quick
• Availability > 99.99%
• Full self-diagnosis (BITE)
• High-end radar arrays

Short-range detection depends on transmitted pulses with a typical duration of 50ns. This kind of pulses, within the solid-state technology, deliver a meager compression gain resulting in weak radar echoes. Doppler elaboration provides little information due to the low velocity of the naval scenario.

On the other hand, in the short-range, hybrid configuration gets stronger radar echoes (at least +20dB) through the integration of magnetron channel, allowing an effective detection.

Combination of solid-state and magnetron provides the best radar picture ever, taking advantages of high power echoes and pulse compression gain simultaneously. 

In this regard, the Hybrid transceiver is a step ahead of Solid-State. It effectively triggers RACON and SART miles away while keep on updating the radar echoes.

SART devices, which have been designed to be triggered by Magnetron radars, remain indifferent to Solid-state transceivers unless in close proximity. In order to detect SART / RACON, the common method used on the solid-state radars is to switch to a special mode of operation (i.e. “SART Detection”), which, on the other hand, disables the function of radar display and detection.

Hence, by selecting the specific mode of operation “SART Detection”, the operator has poor SART detection and renounce to update the radar echoes.

The hybrid XRAD-STRAITGARD provides the best radar picture while triggering SART/RACON.

The XRAD-STRAITGARD maintains the same footprint of non-hybrid versions for VTS and Navigation.Its reduced footprint simplifies civil works to be carried out for site preparation

Extended range of operation, down to -50°C or up to +60°C can be selected as option on any version

Once the radar is mechanically fixed, just plug the provided cables and switch on the system to operateInstallation activities takes few hours and local technicians can carry out operations without any specific training at factory.

ICS radars are shipped all-over the world. Simplifying the system in order to eliminate the dependency from certified field engineers makes the XRAD-STRAITGARD convenient and prompt to be used.

Furtherly, new radar control panel includes a wizard for setting up and, in addition, the remote ICS’s service support remains at customer disposal for smooth and best Setting to Work.

The traditional ICS’s ease-of-maintenance concept has been enhanced by arranging the sub-assemblies as LRI.

In this sense, the XRAD-STRAIGARD furtherly improves the design of  VTS radar family XRAD-OCEANGARD and Navigation radar family XRAD-STRAITMASTER