Defence Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, has completed Phase II of a multifunction X-band wideband experimental airborne radar. The system consists of a high average power transmitter, a digital waveform generator, two wideband 8-bit channels for synthetic aperture radar (SAR)/inverse synthetic aperture radar and two narrowband 14-bit channels for ground moving target indication (GMTI). The reflector antenna uses a novel multimode feedhorn to derive two phase centres displaced in azimuth. The radar was designed to support research into SAR imaging of fixed and moving targets (ocean and land), time–frequency analysis of moving targets, clutter suppression for GMTI radar and ocean surveillance for small and large target detection. Highlights of the data collection capabilities, include a swath width 16 K points wide in the single-channel SAR modes, 8 K points wide in the two-channel integrated SAR–GMTI modes and 4 K points wide in the GMTI surveillance modes. The architecture of the radar, its modes of operation with respect to the SAR and GMTI data collection capabilities, the MATLAB-based GMTI processor, and the real-time kernel developed for the SAR processor are discussed; and results from its high resolution stripmap, landspot, seaspot and GMTI modes are presented from trials in July 2003.