Comparative Analysis of Monostatic and Bistatic RCS Scattering Characteristics for Corner Reflector

The radar corner reflector stands as a typical passive jamming decoy in electronic countermeasures, which presents distinctive Radar Cross Section (RCS) features in monostatic or bistatic radar owing to its particular geometric structure. In this paper, the monostatic and bistatic RCS characteristics of a single octahedral corner reflector and octahedral corner reflector array are analyzed. The impact of different bistatic base angles on the RCS area of the corner reflector is also studied by contrasting the main lobe width and statistical parameters of the RCS, which provides theoretical analysis and data support for the effective identification of targets and corner reflector decoys.