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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).
AN/APS-21 search radar by Westinghouse Electric (1886) for part of AN/APQ-35 for Douglas F3D Skynight and Gloster Meteor NF; AN/APS-23 search radar by Western Electric for Convair B-36 North American B-45C Tornado Boeing B-47E Stratojet B-50 Superfortress B-52 Stratofortress Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Boeing C-135 Stratolifter part of AN/ASB-3
The Type 346 was developed by the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology [nb 1] Further development may have been assisted by the examination of foreign technology; the Type 051C destroyers used 30N6EI Tombstone phased-array Flap Lid antennae from Russia, and in 2004 a prototype C band active phased-array radar and its design package were purchased from the Kvant Design Bureau of ...
Dragon II is a simple warhead upgrade, originally called "Dragon PIP" and officially known as MK1 MOD0. The Dragon II received a new warhead that offers an 85% increase in penetration, to about 600mm. [18] Weight increased to 12.3 kilograms and length to 846mm. Dragon II entered service in 1988.
Square Pair – fire control radar of the SA-5 system; Square Tie – surface search radar for small combatants and cruise missile target designation. [1] Chinese type 352. [2] Squat Eye – alternate target acquisition radar of the SA-3 system; Steel Yard – The Duga over-the-horizon radar; Straight Flush – fire control radar of the SA-6 system
Mark 1A Computer Mk 37 Director above the bridge of destroyer USS Cassin Young with AN/SPG-25 radar antenna. The Mark 1, and later the Mark 1A, Fire Control Computer was a component of the Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System deployed by the United States Navy during World War II and up to 1991 and possibly later.
Fire-control radar Switzerland: 36 [39] Acquired in 1998 for use with the Oerlikon GDF-003. [39] AN/TPQ-53: Counter-battery radar United States: 0/6 Romania purchased six AN/TPQ-53 Quick Reaction Capability Radar systems from the US for $129 million. To be delivered by 2026. [114] PPE PGSR-3i "Beagle" Ground surveillance radar Hungary: 4
The Vickers Medium Dragon was a fully-tracked British field artillery tractor made by Vickers (later Vickers-Armstrongs), produced in various versions from 1922 to 1937. The Medium Dragon towed a wide range of artillery, from 18-pounder field guns to BL 60-pounder heavy field guns .