Automatic beam blanking for stacked beam radar

Claim 1

IN A MULTICHANNEL STACKED-BEAM RADAR, A SYSTEM TO AUTOMATICALLY BLANK EACH OF SAID CHANNELS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A JAMMING SIGNAL RECEIVED THEREBY COMPRISING MEANS TO TRANSMIT A RADAR SIGNAL FROM EACH OF SAID STACKEDBEAMS, MEANS TO RECEIVE BY WAY OF A SEPARATE CHANNEL FOR EACH OF SAID STACKED BEAMS TARGET SIGNALS RESULTING FROM THE TRANSMISSION OF RADAR SIGNALS BY SAID TRANSMITTING MEANS EACH OF SAID SEPARATE CHANNEL INCLUDING A RECEIVER PROVIDING A VIDEO OUTPUT SIGNAL THEREFROM, A BOTTOM LIMITER AND AN INVERTER-AMPLIFIER RECEIVING SIMULTANEOUSLY SAID VIDEO OUTPUT SIGNAL, A DETECTOR RECEIVING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL FO SAID INVERTER-AMPLIFIER, AND AN INTEGRATING NETWORK HAVING AN INTEGRATION PERIOD EXTENDING OVER SEVERAL RADAR REPETITION PERIODS, SAID INTEGRATION NETWORK RECEIVING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM SAID DETECTOR FOR FURTHER APPLICATION TO THE INPUT OF SAID BOTTOM LIMITER, THEREBY PROVIDING A BIASING VOLTAGE THERETO, SAID BIASING VOLTAGE HAVING A MAGNITUDE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID JAMMPING SIGNAL.