History of Russian AESA Radars

History of Russian AESA Radars 

Here's some articles 

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2022/10/01/russia-lags-behind-india-makes-aesa-radar-for-its-sukhoi-su-30s/ 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://technologicaltrendz.quora.com/Why-cant-Russia-make-an-AESA-radar-What-are-they-missing&ved=2ahUKEwi9u57nkeyNAxVmQkEAHURWKBUQjjh6BAgvEAE&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2WPWkKI4V8RwPPNQuInhGx 

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Russia-have-troubles-developing-its-first-AESA-radar-while-South-Korea-and-Turkey-are-developing-theirs-fast 

https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/2020/07/13/why-russia-cant-make-an-aesa-radar/ 

So apparently Russia has struggled to build even rudimentary AESA radars. 

Russia has been using AESA since the 60s and in mass use since the 90s and built their first fighter Jet AESA in early 2000s and first navy AESA in 2010s. 

AESA Generations 

1st Generation / analogue electronics with vacuum tube phase shifters and analogue signal processing and beam forming. 

Old Type AESA 

2nd Generation / utilised individual stick transmitter receiving modules weighing a few hundred grams that contain multiple shifters per module with digital electronics with GaAs microwave monolithic integrated circuits with digital signal processing and digital beam forming. 

USA early work 

FGA-01 

3rd Generation / fully digital GaAs planar monolithic individual transmitter receiving modules with ceramic materials to reduce weight to <10g with phase sifters utilising full digital beam forming and all digital signal processing. 

Podlet-K1 

Articles on Russian 3rd Generation AESA 

4th Generation / micro-electrome- chanical system phase shifters with GaN T/R modules that weight a few grams.  

In very limited use by USA, China, France and Russia with L402 and Krasukha-4 being produced systems that utilise GaN modules 

Articles on Russian GaN radars. 

https://www.niip.ru/upload/iblock/4c8/4c89c11ae741be234a5f900b3fb41e86.pdf

Tech sheet for GaN module. 

Along with next gen photonic radars. 

https://infobrics.org/post/43499 

https://www.deagel.com/Components/ROPAA/a003809

https://tass.com/defense/1012445

AESA Radars made by USSR and Russia 

1st Generation AESA 

5N11 P VT 60s

5N65 P VT 60s

5N15 P VT 70s 

5N76 P VT 70s 

2nd Generation AESA

5P-26M Pozitiv-M P GaAs 90s

Gepard, Buyan and Karakurt

Don-2N P GaAs 90s

1L119U GaAs 90s

Nebo-SVU P 

67N6E P GaAs 00s

Gamma-DE

Voronezh P GaAs 00s

MSP-410 Omul GaAs 90s 

Resonance-N GaAs 00s

Epaulet-A GaAs 00s 

FGA-01 GaAs (first aircraft AESA radar in 2005 - 2007) 

1L260 GaAs 

Zoopark-1M 

N036L Prototype P GaAs/ 

Su57

N036 Byelka Prototype GaAs / 

Su57 

N036B Prototype GaAs / Su-57

MBRLS-MF2 GaAs P / Forpost-R UCAV

Kopyo-DL P GaAs / Su-34M 

FHA03E GaAs P / Ka-27M

1L121-E 

3rd Generation AESA

Predel-E P GaAs 10s

Podlet-K1 P GGaAs 10s

N036Sh Pokosnik P GaAs / 

Su-30SM2 and Su-35S (possibly Su-57)

N036 Byelka 2015 8

N036B 2015 

RLM-M GaAs (possibly GaN) 

Nebo-M 

RLM-D GaAs (possibly GaN) 

Nebo-M 

RLM-S GaAs (possibly GaN) 

Nebo-M 

FGA-35 Zhuk-A P GaAs / MiG-35

FGA-29 Zhuk-A GaAs 

AFAR Plannar GaAs 

29B6 P GaAs 

PPM-AFAR P GaAs / T-14 Armata 

Nebo-UTE P GaAs 

Vega Premier GaAs / A-100 (Pos GaN)

MRK-411 GaAs / Tu-214R

Kasatka GaAs / Il-140M

5P-20 Furke-4 P GaAs / Gorshkov and Grigoriovich 

L-175 Khibiny GaAs / Su-27SM3, Su-30SM and Su-34

SAP-14 GaAs / Su-34P

Krasukha-2 P GaAs 

Sanoket P GaAs 

2S38 Derivitsya-PVO 

PPN-D / GaAs 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV 

Smalovet-1 GaAs 

5N96-TE P GaAs / S-350

Protivnik-GE / S-400 and S-350 P GaAs 

Gamma-C1E GaAs 

1L111M Fara-VR GaAs 

1L277 Sobolyatnik GaAs 

FGA-50 Zhuk-AM GaAs 

9B-1103M2 / R-77M P GaAs 

9B-1103M1 / R-97 P GaAs 

9B-1348M / K-270 and early R-77MEs GaAs 

9M96E2 and 77N6 P ? GaAs 

S-350, S-400 and S-350

40N6 series P ? GaAs / S-400 and S-500

1RS2-3 P GaAs / Pantsir-S1M-SV 

4626 Morfey GaAs 

RBB-3 Zhuk-AU P GaAs / UKR-RL Pika-M Pod for Su-34M 

Arbalet-AM GaAs / Ka-52ME 

VN-101 P GaAs / Mi-171Sh Storm and S-70 GaAs 

SV004-E for Mi-24PN-1M GaAs 

RZ-001E for Mi-8AMTSh-VN GaAs 

Irbis P ? GaAs 

Aris GaAs / experimental 

BRLS-130R GaAs / Yak-130M 

V006 Rezets P GaAs / Ka-52M  

RLS-X-MF series GaAs 

Karakurt, Buyan-M, Steregushchiy and Gremyashchiy

5P-10 Puma GaAs 

Gremyashchiy, Gorshkov, Grigoriovich and Steregushchiy

L-370 Vitebsk GaAs 

MiG-31, Su-25SM3, Ka-52, Mi-171Sh Storm, Mi-28NM, Mi-24VM, Mi-35P, Mi-24PN-1M and Mi-8AMTSh-VN 

Novella-45M GaAs?

IL-38N, Tu-160M2 and Tu-22M3M 

Novella-NV1.021 GaAs?

Tu-95MSM 

4th Generation AESA 

Krasukha-4 P GaN / 10s

L-700 Tarantul P GaN / Su-34MP 20s 

L-265 Khibiny-M P GaN / Su-35S, Su-34M and Su-30SM2 10s

N036Kh/L-402 Himalayas P GaN / Su-57 10s (first GaN radar in aircraft 2015) 

77T6 P GaN / S-500, S-400 and S-350 ?

76T6 P GaN / S-500, S-400 and S-350 ?

91N6AM GaN ?

S-500 

Yastreb-AV P GaN ?

Nebo-T P GaN ?

L-187A Rychag-AV GaN 

Mi-8MTPR-1 and Mi-8MT Bosfor-2

L-418 Monobloc GaN 

Ka-52M 

Over 70 AESA radars were made from old Gen to current gen with over 40 put into production. But yes rusSia cAnT bUiLd aEsA rAdArs. 

Currently 5x russian production fighters use AESA radars, these are MiG-35D, Su-30SM2, Su-34M, Su-35S and Su-57. 

Sources 

Various books from Scribd. 

For AESA radars in equipment 

https://www.niip.ru/upload/iblock/4c8/4c89c11ae741be234a5f900b3fb41e86.pdf

http://www.aviapedia.com/forum/field-trials/t-phazotron-zhuk-ae-aesa-radar-654.html

http://www.defense-update.com/features/du-1-07/aesaradar_zhuk_AE.htm

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/158167/more-on-sukhoi-t_50%E2%80%99s-himalayas-ew-system.html

https://niiet.ru/wp-content/uploads/%D0%9F%D0%9F9139%D0%901.pdf 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140428131143/http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140424/1005305871.html 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140428131143/http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140424/1005305871.html 

https://www.airrecognition.com/index.php/news/airshow/air-show-2017/maks-2017-news-coverage-report/3641-kret-spotlights-new-khibiny-m-ew-system-at-maks-2017.html 

https://armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2021/0312/095561974/detail.shtml 

https://structure.mil.ru/structure/okruga/west/news/more.htm?id=12173927@egNews 

https://ruavia.su/su-34-frontline-bombers-are-equipped-with-a-new-stratospheric-strike-and-reconnaissance-system/ 

https://thaimilitaryandasianregion.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/russia-presents-new-pika-m-reconnaissance-radar-for-su-34/

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/yastreb-av-radar-system-development-nears-completi/ 

https://forum.warthunder.ru/t/operacziya-spasti-ryadovogo-utyonka-poisk-informaczii-po-radaru-pfar-afar/78345/175?page=7

https://sdelanounas.ru/blogs/129147/

https://missiles.ru/2018/08/25/sv004_aesa/

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