Q-par Angus Sinuous Antennas chosen for A400M Radar Warning Receiver
Q-par Angus Ltd is pleased to announce a range of specialist sinuous antennas especially applicable for defence airborne applications. As the only European designer and manufacturer of these high performance antennas, they are in great demand by European & Worldwide defence manufacturers.
They have been recently selected for the A400M Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) programme. Q-par Angus have a range of sinuous antenna designs from 100 MHz through to 18 GHz. These are compact designs offering very low beamsquint and excellent performance. They can be configured for either dual linear or dual circularly polarised operation.
Standard range includes antennas covering:
• 0.2 – 2 GHz
• 0.7 – 4 GHz
• 2.0 – 18 GHz
Applications include RWR, ELINT & Direction Finding (DF) and as reflector feeds exhibiting zero phase centre change with frequency. Q-par Angus supply the full set of RWR antennas for the new Airbus A400M Military Transport aircraft and there is more interest forthcoming for other new military aircraft programmes.
The company also supply Spiral Antennas of similar outline with an extended frequency range to 42 GHz.
Source: ADS