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I have dinner plates that are larger than the phased array under the nose cone/radome of the C-130 Hercules or the 737.

Phased arrays can be very small.

Source? I don't know of any plane that have a proper phased array - the only one I know of is the Airborne Phased Array Radar and that's still a WIP.

Note that just putting a couple of antennas close to each other to improve angular resolution on the radar isn't really a phased array in the sense that we're talking about.

Hundreds of aircraft have phased arrays onboard. See this wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_electronically_scanne...

Specifically, I believe the one on the 737 is the Rockwell Collins WXR-2100.

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