Meteksan Defence Exports its Retinar PTR Surveillance Radar to a European Country
Meteksan Defence made an announcement through its official Twitter account on July 12th that the Retinar PTR Surveillance Radar, developed and produced by Meteksan engineers, was selected as the perimeter security system of the airport in the capital city of a nondisclosed European country and that the contract of which was signed.
The Retinar PTR, which will be integrated on the telescopic masts at the airport, will be used to detect human, animals and vehicles that could create threats around the airport. Within the scope of the agreement made, the delivery is expected to be completed by the end of 2018, and the system is expected to go into operation simultaneously.
In the recent period, Meteksan Defence provided the Retinar PTR Perimeter Surveillance Radar for use by the Turkish Armed Forces in the theater and received the first order from the Turkish Armed Forces due to the positive feedback from the field. Also, in the last quarter of 2017, Meteksan Defence secured the first export contract of the Retinar PTR, the lightest member of the Retinar family, with a nondisclosed country.
Retinar PTR - Agile Surveillance Providing Swiftness in the Field
Retinar PTR is the man-portable model of Meteksan Defence’s Retinar Perimeter Surveillance Radar Family. It is small in size and light weight. The high-technology radar system was developed for use in surveillance operations such as perimeter security of critical facilities, border security, and agile surveillance carried by patrolling mobile personnel.
The system stands out with an enhanced user interface, compact structure, lightness and low power consumption. With its total weight of twenty-five kilograms, it can be carried operationally by two personnel in its special backpacks and can be used in a mobile capacity on a tripod with its batteries. The radar consists of a small size antenna and signal processing units integrated to the antenna and it is connected to a pan/tilt unit. This configuration can be installed in less than 5 minutes. For mobile operations, 2 - 6 battery blocks can be carried in backpacks depending on the period of use. The system also has an optional portable power supply/battery charging unit that can be fed from any kind of power source. The user can operate it with two battery cartridges for almost 8 hours. This in turn provides swiftness in the tactical field.
The system can show its location and orientation to the user on the digital map with the internal GPS and magnetic compass. With the included special monocular, bearing angle can be measured and also target surveillance can be performed if required.
In the mobile configuration, the radar system is used on a tripod. Retinar PTR also features stationary and vehicle-mounted configurations. Through its special Wi-Fi antennas, Retinar PTR can be remotely controlled from a distance of up to 1 km, and it has the ability to communicate with smart phones and tablets via special mobile apps. Retinar PTR can be easily integrated with all camera systems, and it features slew-to-cue for cameras and stabilized weapon platforms.
It also generates the doppler signature of the target and provides classification information whether it’s a vehicle, human or animal with micro-doppler spectrogram analysis. With this specification Retinar PTR, mobile objects that are the size of a human or an animal can detect, track and classify from a distance of 4 km, as well as vehicles from a distance of 10 km with minimum error. Thanks to its innovative RF design and high signal processing capacity, a special pulse compression wave form was used.
Retinar PTR tracks up to 100 targets (plots) simultaneously, it transmits an alarm signal to the command center when certain predefined conditions are met.
Retinar PTR is equipped with special algorithms for human detection. Thanks to its ability to use radio waves with high frequency, high-resolution data can be obtained regarding the targets detected. These data are presented to the user in graphic form and the used can determine whether the target is a human or animal. By this means, false alarms are reduced, and more efficient use of human resources is possible by making sure that the security forces are engaged only in real targets.
The Retinar PTR-X Surveillance Radar and Retinar OPUS Surveillance Radar
The Retinar PTR-X Surveillance Radar, designed for stationary use at critical facilities or on vehicles, removes the dependency on operators of the security forces working with conventional camera systems and of civilian security institutions as well as eliminates possible errors. With its advanced micro-doppler algorithms, it can detect the distant targets and transmit the information automatically to the operators, thus making possible to use existing camera systems more efficiently.
Retinar OPUS Surveillance Radar, the other member of this product family, stands out as a model which is fully integrated with the day / thermal camera systems of the Retinar PTR-X. The radar and thermal / day camera systems work with their own router units, without shading each other on a single mast. Thanks to the full integration of radar and thermal / day cameras, the system also provides superior drone detection and tracking performance to its users.
