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Under Project NJORD, new radars / new complementary sensors are going to be installed to deal with the growth of the wind turbine fields. Under the MOD Procurement Pipeline, works begin on the radar heads at Neatishead, Brizlee Wood and Buchan in Dec 2025.
https://twitter.com/GazTheJourno/status/1720392505709953311
Staxton Wold is planned to follow in October 2026, while Benbecula, Portreath, Saxa Vord will be touched up Oct 2027. Each is getting a 210 million package of uplifts. Solutions include replacing existing radars; adding gap fill radar and/or optical sensors, UAVs & LEO satellites
An RFI last year for new Multi Mode Radars for static sites asked industry for a 5-year outlook on new capabilities to improve target tracking both in the face of wind turbines and at very high altitudes, including ballistic missile defence and residual Space Domain Awareness.
Some real smart things have been trialed during the experimental phase of NJORD. One solution evaluated is to make the wind turbines themselves "stealth" to reduce clutter. Other experiment, Multistatic Staring Radar (MSAR), triangulating observation for 2 or more sensors.
Advanced Doppler techniques & algorythms are another option being experimented; installaling passive radar heads and Electro-optical sensors directly on selected Wind Turbine towers. A further DASA competition has been launched last February for more demonstations over 19 months.
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