Digital antenna array (DAA) is a smart antenna with multi channels digital beamforming, usually by using fast Fourier transform (FFT).
The development and practical realization of digital antenna arrays theory started in 1962 under the guidance of Vladimir Varyukhin (USSR).
Digital antenna array (receiver segment)
Digital antenna array (transmitter part)
Transposed Block Face-splitting product in the model of a Multi-Face radar with DAA, proposed by V. Slyusar in 1996
F220 Hamburg with SMART-L
Vladimir Alekseevich Varyukhin was a Soviet and Ukrainian scientist, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, Major-General, founder of the theory of multichannel analysis, and creator of the scientific school on digital antenna arrays (DAAs).
Vladimir Varyukhin
The experimental radar with 64-channels DAA (USSR, 1982)
The technology demonstrator of 8-channels DAA (USSR, 1989)