Research on Interrupted Sampling Repeater Jamming Performance Based on Joint Frequency Shift/Phase Modulation

Abstract

Interrupted sampling repeater jamming (ISRJ) is a classic active coherent jamming. Due to its structural limitations, it has inherent defects such as a discontinuous time–frequency (TF) distribution, strong distribution regularity of pulse compression results, limited jamming amplitude, and strong false targets lagging behind the real target. These defects have not been fully resolved yet due to the limitation of the theoretical analysis system. Based on the analysis of the influence factors of ISRJ on the interference performance for linear-frequency-modulated (LFM) and phase-coded signals, this paper proposes an improved ISRJ method based on the joint subsection frequency shift and two-phase modulation. The coherent superposition of jamming signals at different positions for LFM signals is achieved by controlling the frequency shift matrix and the phase modulation parameters to form a strong pre-lead false target or multiple positions and ranges of blanket jamming areas. For the phase-coded signal, the pre-lead false targets are generated through code prediction and the two-phase modulation of the code sequence, resulting in similar noise interference. The simulation results show that this method can overcome the inherent defects of ISRJ.

Keywords

• electronic countermeasures
• ISRJ
• frequency shift modulation
• phase modulation