The invention belongs to the technical field of radar moving target detection, and particularly relates to a space-time adaptive processing method for airborne forward-looking array radar. The method includes the specific steps of obtaining a data vector xnk1, received by the kth pulse of the nth line of array elements of a receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, of a first distance door, obtaining the data vectors, recorded by the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, of selected distance doors recorded within the time period of [KT, (K+1)T], obtaining the estimation (please see the specifications) of the dimensionality reduction pitching covariance matrix of the first distance door of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, obtaining the dimensionality reduction self-adaption weight vector omega E of the first distance door of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, obtaining the data vector ynk1, received by the kth pulse of the nth line of array elements of the receiving array of the airborne forward-looking array radar, of the first distance door after pitching pre-filtering is conducted, and obtaining the signal of the kth Doppler channel of the first distance door of the airborne forward-looking array radar through the orientation-Doppler space-time adaptive processing method after the space-time adaptive processing is conducted.