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It is aimed to design a X-band monopulse microstrip antenna array that can be used almost in all modern tracking radars and having superior properties in angle detection and angular accuracy than the classical ones. In order to create a monopulse antenna array, a rectangular microstrip antenna is designed and 16 of it gathered together using the nonlinear central feeding to suppress the side lobe level (SLL) of the antenna. The monopulse antenna is created by the combining 4 of these 4x4 array antennas with a microstrip comparator designed using four branch line coupler. Good agreement is noted between the simulation and measurement results.

Sonobuoy is a sensory device collecting underwater acoustic signals and transmitting them to some base stations via RF waveforms. In this paper, newly developed Turkish sonobuoy project's sea performance is presented. The proposed system architecture has been developed as a prototype in the lab environment. Lab experiments have been conducted successfully over a test bench representing typical submarine detection case. These experiments are designed to calibrate sensory system and optimize the RF transmission. The sonobuoy system has been used in open sea environment for the similar submarine scenario. The bearing angle representing submarine position has been detected within ± 10 o accuracy as required. We, then, compared the lab and experimental open sea results that were identical.

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