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(11) EP 0 250 082 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
14.03.1990 Bulletin 1990/11

(43) Date of publication A2:
23.12.1987 Bulletin 1987/52

(21) Application number: 87304173.5

(22) Date of filing: 11.05.1987
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)4: H01Q 1/28, H01Q 21/20
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES FR GB IT NL

(30) Priority: 12.05.1986 GB 8611504

(71) Applicant: BRITISH AEROSPACE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
Farnborough, Hants. GU14 6YU (GB)

(72) Inventor:
  • Shepperd, John Nicholas
    Freckleton, Lancashire, PR4 1HD (GB)

(74) Representative: Rackham, Stephen Neil 
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH
London EC2M 7LH (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Vehicleincluding a radar antenna


    (57) A vehicle (1) includes a radar antenna (12) mounted in a nose portion (10) of it. The antenna (12) is shaped substantially to conform to the exterior contour of the nose portion (10) and has a surface angled with reference to the forward direction and hence to the expected direction of incident emission from a threat radar so that the emission is deflected away from and not returned to its source. This reduces the forward hemisphere radar signature of the vehicle which is the dominant signature as far as an enemy radar is concerned to a considerable degree.







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