Airborne EW towed decoy mini-TWTA launched
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Albacom product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 22, 2000
To meet the accelerating demand for Airborne EW systems worldwide, Albacom has designed and developed a Mini-Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier System optimised for towed decoy systems
To meet the accelerating demand for Airborne EW systems worldwide, particularly in the wake of recent NATO operations, albacom Limited of Dundee, UK has designed and developed a Mini-Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) System optimised for towed decoy systems.
The system offers new levels of performance efficiency and miniaturisation.
Modularity allows power supply integration with a variety of Mini-TWT's either the Albacom AHT-13-70 or third party tubes.
Albacom Limited of Dundee, UK is one of a select number of companies worldwide that design, prototype and manufacture Microwave TWT and TWTA for radar and EW applications.
Albacom however stands out with its ability to go beyond manufacture to actual integration of TWT's and amplifiers in-house; a specialist process that few have successfully mastered.
The new Albacom APS-4-400 power supply with a weight of 1.5 Kg and dimensions of 200 mm x 250 mm x 40 mm delivers 400 W of output power using a high efficency 300KHz resonant converter.
The AHT-13-70 Mini-TWT from albacom, weight 0.6Kg and dimensions of 200mm x 50mm x 40 mm is designed for integration with the APS-4-400 and in the narrowband version is designed for use in podded sensor payloads and for the emerging UAV market.
In the broadband version the integrated system is designed for airborne EW with additional applications in Naval and land platforms where performance and weight/volume parameters dictate compactness and ruggedness The APS-4-400 and AHT-13-70 are entering production in 2000 for UK and export sales to the select albacom customer-base amongst defence prime contractors, defence research and development establishments and armed forces.
The APS-4-400 has been designed to enable future development to include further reductions in scale to form an MPM-Microwave Power Module, a first for a UK company.
The AHT-13-70 is rated at 70W minimum power output, 30dB gain, and can run under CW or pulsed operation The AHT-13-70 is a compact, rugged tube of metal ceramic construction and weighs 0.6 kg (approx.).
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