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Microwave Development Labs (MDL) has been supplying an array of precision manufactured passive waveguide components for over 50 years. MDL’s business has always centered around components, most destined for final assembly within advanced communications, defense and space systems. Recently, however, MDL supplied an integrated subassembly to a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) defense contractor working with the U.S. Army. MDL’s Integrated Transmit-Receive Assembly, now in production at the company’s Needham Heights, MA production facility, demonstrates how the company that patented the Riblet Coupler back in the early 1950s continues to provide innovative waveguide solutions for some of the most demanding customers in the world.

MDL’s integrated Transmit-Receive Assembly (Figure 1) is an all-aluminum front-end assembly consisting of seven individual components for use in a very high resolution, all weather Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) airborne system employed in a UAV (in this case an unmanned helicopter).

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Events

San Francisco, California 
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society 
June 11-16, 2006 booth number is 2324
http://www.ims2006.org/