New Radar for F-15EX: More Range Without Demanding More Power
Oct. 3, 2025 | By John A. Tirpak
RTX’s Raytheon is offering the Air Force and potential future users of Boeing’s F-15EX an enhanced APG-82 radar that promises greater effective range without requiring more power, enabling it to better detect low-observable targets.
The APG-82(V)X, announced at AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in mid-September, “incorporates cutting-edge gallium nitride (GaN) technology to enhance the radar’s effectiveness, delivering increased range, advanced air-to-air, air-to-ground, and electronic warfare capabilities,” the company said.
The new sensor detects and tracks more rapidly and engages “with multi-function fire control and EW [Electronic Warfare] capabilities,” a company spokesperson said. “It will help warfighters make faster decisions and provide superior situational awareness in contested environments.”
GaN supports higher voltages, but generates less heat than conventional gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology and potentially could permit a more dense array of transmit-receive (TR) modules in the same space and with less weight.
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