• High reliability
• Commercial off-the-shelf system
  • ARINC 708A X-band multimode doppler color weather radar
• Multiple operating modes
  • Weather
  • Weather plus turbulence detection
  • Ground map
  • Windshear detection
  • Skin paint
• Ground clutter suppression
• Mode interleaving
• Dual mode capability
• Built-in test software
• Display of weather, turbulence, windshear and skin paint targets on FDS-255 display
  • ARINC 453 display bus
  • ARINC 429 skin paint bus

The Rockwell Collins FMR-200X Flight Multimode Weather Radar System is a standard Non-Developmental Item/Commercial off-the-shelf (NDI/COTS) ARINC 708A X-band coherent Doppler color weather radar system. This system provides full precipitation detection, turbulence detection, Forward-Looking Windshear detection and an additional active skin paint mode capable of detecting tanker-size aircraft at ranges up to 15 nmi.

Multimode weather radar software has been designed and certified to RTCA DO-178B level D standards. The system has been qualified to meet environmental standards described in RTCA DO-160°C with a few exceptions. Operation at -40°C is required only after a warm-up period of 30 minutes for temperatures below -15°C. Mil-STD-461D is used for radiated emissions, antenna spurious and harmonics. All operations other than the skin paint mode, sixteen-level mapping and minor display and control bus modifications are defined in accordance with ARINC 708A (Airborne Weather Radar with Forward-Looking Windshear detection capability). This system is based on the Rockwell Collins WXR-700X Radar System that has over 6,600 installations worldwide.

The WXR-700X originally entered service in 1980 and was the first Air Transport airborne radar to incorporate the doppler turbulence detection feature. In 1986 Rockwell Collins began a cooperative program with NASA to expand the system's capability to detect windshear/microburst events ahead of the aircraft. The capability, performance and reliability of the WXR-700X have continuously improved during the past fifteen years.

The FMR-200X is being installed on the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135’s as part of the "Lightning Bolt" procurement streamlining initiative and selected international tanker customers have installed the FMR-200X as well.

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