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Gun laying is the process of aiming an artillery piece or turret, such as a gun, howitzer, or mortar, on land, at sea, or in air, against surface or aerial targets. It may be laying for either direct fire , where the gun is aimed directly at a target within the line-of-sight of the user, or by indirect fire , where the gun is not aimed directly ...
The first mention of radar in the UK was a 1930 suggestion made by W. A. S. Butement and P. E. Pollard of the Army War Office's Signals Experimental Establishment (SEE). [1] [2] They proposed building a radar system for detecting ships to be used with shore batteries, and went so far as to build a low-power breadboard prototype using pulses at 50 cm wavelength (600 MHz).
Radar, Gun Laying, Mark III, or GL Mk.III for short, was a radar system used by the British Army to directly guide, or lay, anti-aircraft artillery (AA). The GL Mk. III was not a single radar, but a family of related designs that saw constant improvement during and after World War II.
The Automatic Gun-Laying Turret (AGLT), also known as the Frazer-Nash FN121, was a radar-directed, rear gun turret fitted to some British bombers from 1944. AGLT incorporated both a low-power tail warning radar and fire-control system , which could detect approaching enemy fighters , aim and automatically trigger machine guns – in total ...
In 1944, the US Army contracted [7] for an electronic "computer with guns, a tracking radar, plotting boards and communications equipment" (M33C & M33D models used different subassemblies for 90 & 120 mm gun/ammunition ballistics.) [3] The "trial model predecessor" (T-33) was used as late as 1953, [8] and the production M33 (each $383,000 in 1954 dollars) [9] had been deployed in 1950. [10]
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The SCR-584 (short for Set, Complete, Radio # 584) was an automatic-tracking microwave radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II.It was one of the most advanced ground-based radars of its era, and became one of the primary gun laying radars used worldwide well into the 1950s.
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