High Speed, Dual-Mode Missile Radome (HiSMR)
NAVAIR PATUXENT RIVER
As the Navy continues to make communications advancements, antenna bandwidth requirements increase. With the use of higher frequencies and higher missile speeds, the housing of the antenna, called the radome, must meet new materials challenges. The radome must maintain mechanical and electrical properties at higher temperatures. ATK Composites has developed Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) materials that show an excellent combination of electrical, mechanical, and erosion-resistance properties suitable for radome structures that can experience temperatures up to 2500°F.
Applications
- Military and Commercial Significance:
- High Speed, Dual-Mode Missile Radome (HiSMR)
- Weapons and Unmanned Air Vehicles
- AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile(AARGM)
- Space launch and re-entry vehicles
- Jet engine exhaust nozzle flaps for both conventional jet engines & thrust vectoring engines
- Exhaust system components for helicopters
- Combustor liners for advanced gas turbine engines
- CMCs show great promise for achieving a successful high temperature, high frequency nose radome suitable for high speed missiles. CMC materials for high temperature antennas and radomes will be of great value on current and future commercial space launch and re-entry vehicles. The antennae and radomes on these vehicles (manned and unmanned) reach temperatures that exceed the capabilities of most available materials systems and must meet difficult dielectric and physical demands. The extended durability and increased performance of CMC components decreases the life cycle costs of commercial jet engines, exhaust system components, and commercial power gas turbine engines. ATK Composites is partnering with Siemens-Westinghouse to apply CMCs to their next-generation engine product lines.
Provenance
- Original
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