AN/TPQ-53 Quick Reaction Capability Radar

AN/TPQ-53 Quick Reaction Capability Radar is a mobile Active electronically scanned array counter-battery radar system manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The Radar is specifically designed to locate the firing positions of both rocket and mortar launchers. The TPQ-53 radar's delivery on 2 July 2009 followed its successful live-fire performance testing against indirect fire from mortars, artillery and rockets from a simulated enemy. The system has been tested and has been accepted by the US Army. TPQ-53 radar systems will replace the aging TPQ-36 and TPQ-37 medium-range radars now in the Army's inventory. In addition to its counter-fire and counter-drone missions,[1]

AN/TPQ-53 phased array radar

Prior to September 2011 This system was known as EQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar.[2]

In June 2013 the United States Army exercised a contract option to finish out the total production of 51 systems.[3] After a contract award 24 April 2017 has completed production, the Army will hold more than 170 such systems.[4] In April 2020 the first GaN based AN/TPQ-53 was delivered to the U.S. Army[5]

Nomenclature

Per the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the nomenclature AN/TPQ-53 is thus derived:

  • "AN/" originally indicated Army/Navy (Marines), but is now used to indicate the JETDS system.[6]
  • "T" for 'transportable', indicating it is carried by a vehicle but is not an integral part of said vehicle (compare with 'V' for vehicle-mounted).
  • "P" indicating a radar.
  • "Q" for a special-purpose/multipurpose radar, in this case counter-battery.
  • "53" is the model number of this radar within the TPQ radar family.

See also

Notes
  1. Army Q-53 Radar Can Now Stop Drone Attacks
  2. Fein, Geoff (March 2012). "Weapon Finding Radars". Jane's International Defence Review: 37.
  3. "US Army Ramps Up TPQ-53 Counterfire Radars."
  4. (24 April 2017) Protecting the Soldier: U.S. Army Orders More Q-53 Counterfire Radars from Lockheed Martin
  5. "First Q-53 Radar Equipped with Gallium Nitride Delivered to U.S. Army". Archived from the original on 2020-05-06.
  6. Parsch, Andreas. Designations Of U.S. Military Electronic And Communications Equipment. February 3, 2008
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