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  2. Radar in World War II - Wikipedia

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    It was placed into service in late 1942, and by 1944 it had also been adapted for use on surfaced submarines. With some 1,000 sets eventually being built, the Type 13 was by far the most used air- and surface-search radar of the Imperial Navy. The Type 14 was a shipboard system designed for long-range, air-search applications.

  3. Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine radar equipment of World War II

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    Klein Heidelberg was the code-name give to a passive radar system devised in 1941. The system was a bi-static radar system. What was unusual was that the transmitters were British rather than German! The system worked by using the reflections from the Chain Home (British coastal radar system) rather than transmitters associated with the receivers.

  4. SC radar - Wikipedia

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    The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-262-9; Buderi, Robert (1998). The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution. Touchstone. ISBN 0-684-83529-0; Hezlet, Arthur (1975). Electronics and Sea Power.

  5. List of radars - Wikipedia

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    air search radar Argentina: in ... This system was continued after WWII with multiservice designations being prefixed by 'AN/' for Army-Navy. BuShips 1943 ...

  6. SK radar - Wikipedia

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    SK was a very high frequency search set for large ships. It furnished range and bearing of surface vessels and aircraft, and it could be used for control of interception. The set had both "A" and PPI scopes, provisions for operating with remote PPIs and for IFF connections, and built-in BL and BI antenn

  7. List of Japanese World War II radars - Wikipedia

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    Aichi E13A1b "Jake" Mark 11B: like model 11A, added Air-Surface radar and other night conversion with radar (E13A1b-S). Kawanishi H6K2,4 and 5 "Mavis" Marks 11,22 and 23: More powerful engines, for ultra long range missions, long range sea radio equipment and air-surface finding radar added.

  8. List of World War II electronic warfare equipment - Wikipedia

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    Seetakt – a shipborne radar developed in the 1930s and used by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, later improved into Freya air search radar. Serrate – British radar detection and homing device, used by night fighters to track down German night fighters with early UHF-band versions of Lichtenstein.

  9. AN/APS-4 search radar - Wikipedia

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    Side view of an AN/APS-4 radar pod without its shell. The AN/APS-4, originally known as ASH (air-surface, model H) is an early military air-to-air and air-to-surface radar used by American and British warplanes during World War II. APS-4 operated in the X band at 3 cm, compared to the 10 cm S band used by most radars of the era. This allowed ...