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[Gomig-21]

Captor E is an upgrade of the E-scan radar..

https://www.baesystems.com/en/product/e-scan-radar

But they're 2 different radars. One is the Actively Scanned Array (CAPTOR-E) and the other is an Electronically Scanned Array (E-SCAN) and the Kuwaitis were supposed to get the CAPTOR-E, but now they're jets are being tested with the E-SCAN radar which means either the CAPTOR-E is not ready, or the Kuwaitis chose the E-SCAN radar instead. It's a bit confusing what's going on.

 

[The SC]

But they're 2 different radars. One is the Actively Scanned Array (CAPTOR-E) and the other is an Electronically Scanned Array (E-SCAN) and the Kuwaitis were supposed to get the CAPTOR-E, but now they're jets are being tested with the E-SCAN radar which means either the CAPTOR-E is not ready, or the Kuwaitis chose the E-SCAN radar instead. It's a bit confusing what's going on.

Yes a bit confusing..

2014 Captor E-Scan radar
https://www.baesystems.com/en/feature/radar-love

But not anymore:

9 April 2020

"The Euroradar consortium (Leonardo, Hensoldt and Indra) has secured production build contracts for 28 E-scan radars from Eurofighter/Leonardo Aircraft, as the prime contractor for Kuwait, and for 24 radars from BAE Systems, as the prime contractor for Qatar.

Captor-E is something of a hybrid, having a conventional E-scan array mounted on a rotating mechanical swashplate repositioner. This increases its angle of regard from about +/-60° on each side of the centreline to greater than 90°, meaning that a fighter can ‘crank’ or turn away harder after launching a BVR missile, making it less vulnerable to a return missile shot, while still using its radar to provide mid-course updates for the missile fired.

The Captor-E radar has flown on test aircraft at BAE Systems Warton and Airbus Defence and Space in Manching, using production-standard software. It passed its critical design review (CDR) exactly on schedule and the design has been frozen, while software is still being developed and matured through flight-testing."


https://www.arabianaerospace.aero/the-smart-phoon.html