Receiver survival is only the first boundary; the protected receive path must also recover to specified gain, noise, phase and linearity before the earliest required echo is processed. State transmit peak and average leakage at the protected reference plane, pulse width, PRF, rise/fall behavior, frequency, source/load mismatch, switch or circulator isolation, limiter threshold, limiter leakage and the maximum non-damaging input of every exposed stage.
Define recovery from the end of the actual transmit event to a measurable receive criterion: gain within tolerance, noise floor restored, DC or baseband offset settled, phase coherent if required and no residual compression. A component may survive while limiter memory, LNA overload, AGC or bias recovery masks close-range targets.
Verify with the real waveform or a justified equivalent over frequency, temperature, supply and component tolerance. Include repeated bursts and worst-case VSWR. Reject a design when residual leakage or recovery time is specified only typically, when the test pulse has less energy than the real waveform, or when protection behavior cannot be correlated to the nearest usable range gate.