Blighter has further enhanced the stealth characteristics of its electronic scanning (e-scan) radars to better serve the growing number of developers of crewed and autonomous multi-sensor surveillance vehicles and platforms.
According to Blighter, the increasing sophistication of electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) means demand for Low-Probability-of-Intercept (LPI) radars is rising rapidly. The need for covert radars that can see without being seen is particularly strong in the mobile surveillance market, where stealth, information superiority, and data security are paramount.
Blighter radars, including its B400 series, feature LPI waveforms, making the radar signal difficult to detect and therefore difficult to jam. Radar performance remains exceptional, with Blighter’s industry-leading capability in detecting and classifying people, vehicles, and near-ground airborne threats.
Mark Radford, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Blighter, stated: “Our radars are inherently covert due to the design choices we made at the outset. We were first to market with a solid-state, non-rotating electronic scanning ground radar, and our adoption of dual antenna FMCW architecture and decision to operate in the Ku-band spectrum have led to an exceptionally tough, EMC robust, and stealthy radar design.”
Blighter continues refining its technology to improve target detection, tracking, and classification while remaining covert. New fast scanning modes featuring sub-second update rates result in even less radar energy transmitted in any specific direction. Furthermore, when used with BlighterNexus’ ‘Scan-Manager Application Module’, the radar can operate in Multi-Function Radar (MFR) mode with greater randomization of low-power waveforms.
Mark Radford added: “Developers of crewed and autonomous surveillance vehicles and platforms are already benefitting from Blighter’s LPI credentials. The radar’s solid-state design and extremely low transmit power (4 Watts) reduce EMC and acoustic signatures and result in a smaller safety zone around the radar to aid sensor integration. But fundamentally, it’s the complexity and length of the combined e-scan, FMCW, and Doppler chirp waveforms that make Blighter radar so difficult to detect and jam.”
In 2025, Blighter radars were integrated into a fleet of custom-built multi-sensor mobile surveillance vehicles for on-the-go monitoring of a European land border; by Allen-Vanguard for its SECURIS rapid deployable counter-drone system; and by a Southeast Asian military customer for mobile border surveillance vehicles.
“Our radar is probably the stealthiest and most resilient ground radar in its class and an excellent fit for developers in the multi-sensor mobile surveillance space,” said Mark Radford. “A great fit for customers wanting to add covert radar into modernization programmes, electric and hybrid autonomous vehicles, as well as for patrol and target designator vehicles.”
