This document summarizes secondary surveillance radar (SSR) systems. It discusses:
1) The basic principles of primary and secondary radar, including how secondary radar uses interrogations and transponder replies to provide aircraft identification and additional data like altitude.
2) The modes used in SSR - such as military identification, mission information, joint military/civil identification, and altitude data - and how they are interlaced to gather more information.
3) Advantages of SSR over primary radar, including positive identification and clutter elimination, as well as disadvantages like interrogations through side lobes and false replies.