Range Gate Pull-Off Mainlobe Jamming Suppression Approach with FDA-MIMO Radar: Theoretical Formalism and Numerical Study

Abstract

With the development of an electronic interference technique, the self-defense jammer can generate mainlobe jamming using the range gate pull-off (RGPO) strategy, which brings serious performance degradation of target tracking for the ground-based warning radar. In this paper, a RGPO mainlobe jamming suppression approach is proposed, with a frequency diverse array using multiple-input multiple-output (FDA-MIMO) radar. The RGPO mainlobe jamming differs from the true target in slant range, thus it is possible to identify the true target from the RGPO mainlobe jammings by exploiting the transmit beampattern diversity of FDA-MIMO radar. A RGPO mainlobe jamming suppression approach is devised by using joint transmit–receive beamforming for a group of range sectors. The jamming suppression performance is studied, in consideration of practical time-delay of RGPO jamming. Simulation examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.