The concept of the radar environment simulator software

The effectiveness of radar systems highly depends on meeting certain expectations, both technical and operationaltactical. The verification of the effectiveness of radars and their cooperation with other elements of the grouping in conditions similar to combat operations requires the use of various simulation techniques. This paper introduces the concept of the radar environment simulator, which allows the generation of complex simulation variants that are adapted to conduct a wide range of tactical exercises and scientific experiments. The wide range of the simulator's interaction with the radar was met by placing it inside a signal processing block and incorporating it into the technical and tactical parameters management system of the radar. The simulator concept assumes the possibility of generating a wide range of trajectories of air objects. Interoperability of the simulator with selected signal processing block modules enables the simulation of undesirable phenomena such as targeted interference, damage to radar modules, etc. The performed tests confirmed the usefulness of the presented solution for its use in real radar.