Patriot’s C-band PESA radar is showing up on SAR satellite images

A new way to geolocate C-band air defense radars have been discovered by Harel Dan. Analyzing the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data generated by Europe’s Sentinel 1 satellites. He found out that the radars showed up as X-shaped marks in the images.



It is believed that the AN/MPQ-53/65 signals are interfering with the radar of the Sentinel 1s.

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