Table 4
Power budget design for an L-band radar with the following detection requirements: RCS = 1 m2, range = 2,000 km, and SNR = 12.6 dB

Parameters Relative Gain[dB] Remarks
Transmit Power, Pt 7 Pt= 500 kW with P0= 100 kW,
Transmit antenna Gain, Gt 0 Gt= 40 dB @N = 5,000
Receive antenna Gain, Gr 3 N = 10,000, separate Rx antenna
Signal Processing Gain, Gp 13.3 64 pulse Integration (noncoherent)
Pulse width Control 3 Average power is increase by 2 ms
SNR Margins 10 Taking into account unmodeled losses
Total Increases 26.3 Pd= 80 %, Pfa= 10-6