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However, it is accompanied by a low search efficiency problem caused by the narrow main lobe and the angular ambiguity problem stemming from the high grating lobes. By simultaneously utilizing multiple grating lobes, we propose an effective search method and pertinent unambiguous signal processing algorithms to address the issue of using collocated DCAR for unambiguous target search. We investigate the beam migration of a grating lobe-irradiated target at various frequencies in order to carry out the multi-frequency coherent integration of the suggested search method in DCAR. In order to address the issue of using multiple beam lobes to simultaneously detect multiple targets, we also take into account the scenario of multiple targets and introduce the multiple hypothesis method to solve the problem. The DCAR search efficiency can be improved by tens of times through grating lobes exploitation, which makes use of DCAR to make the searches feasible. We also improved the performance of multi-frequency DOA ambiguity solving compared to existing algorithms with the sliding window clustering scheme. The viability of using grating lobes for the DCAR target searching and detection is shown in simulations. 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