Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The AN/APG-65 and
AN/APG-73 are designations for a family of all-weather multimode
airborne radar systems designed by Hughes Aircraft for the F/A-18
Hornet, and used on a variety of fighter aircraft types. The APG-79 is
an upgraded AESA version. These I band pulse-Doppler radar systems are
designed for both air-to-air and air-to-surface missions. For air-to-air
operations they incorporate a variety of search, track and
track-while-scan modes to give the pilot a complete look-down/shoot-down
capability. Air-to-surface modes include Doppler beam sharpened sector
and patch mapping, medium range synthetic aperture radar, fixed and
moving ground target track and sea surface search. In the F/A-18, the
radar is installed in a slide-out nose rack to facilitate maintenance
