Radar, Air-to-Surface Vessel, Mark III, or ASV Mk. III for short, was a surface search radar system used by RAF Coastal Command during World War II. It...
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equipped with ASV Mark III radar. A later model, Naxos ZR, provided warning of the approach of RAF night fighters equipped with AI Mk. VIII radar. Prior to...
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Radar, Air to Surface Vessel, or ASV radar for short, is a classification used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to refer to a series of aircraft-mounted radar...
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Short Sunderland (redirect from Short Sunderland Mk. III)
aid combat operations, including the Leigh searchlight, the ASV Mark II and ASV Mark III radar units, and an astrodome. The Sunderland was one of the most...
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Radar, Air to Surface Vessel, Mark II, or ASV Mk. II for short, was an airborne sea-surface search radar developed by the UK's Air Ministry immediately...
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Vickers Wellington (section Airborne radar)
the aircraft. Type 454 and Type 459 Wellington Mark IX prototypes with ASV Mark II, ASV Mark III radars, and powered by two Bristol Hercules VI and XVI...
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VIII radar, airborne interception radar fitted to fighters ASV Mark II radar ASV Mark III radar Naval List of World War II British naval radar Fire balloons...
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task of arranging interceptions. The near-simultaneous arrival of ASV Mark III radar, huff-duff, Type 271 and new breaks into the German's Naval Enigma...
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be produced using radar. The first systems went into service in early 1943 as the H2S Mk. I and H2S Mk. II, as well as ASV Mark III. On its second operational...
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Seventy-five long range aircraft equipped with the new centrimetric ASV Mark III radar with PPI display patrolled regions in the Bay of Biscay with known...
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AI radar stands in contrast with ASV radar, whose goal is to detect ships and other sea-surface vessels, rather than aircraft; both AI and ASV are often...
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ASV Mk. II - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV Mk. III - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV Mk. XI - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV...
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Radar, Aircraft Interception, Mark IV (AI Mk. IV), also produced in the USA as SCR-540, was the world's first operational air-to-air radar system. Early...
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successful air-to-surface-vessel (ASV) radar, from early 1940. ASV II was a re-packaged ASV I but otherwise similar. ASV II radar allowed Fleet Air Arm (FAA)...
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introduced the centimetric ASV Mk. III radar, regaining control of the battle. Although the German Naxos countered these radars, by this time the U-boat...
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Hanbury Brown and John William Sutton Pringle. Rebecca was essentially an ASV radar fit to a new broadcaster unit, while the Eureka system was all-new. Initial...
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the metric wavelength ASV II (Air to Surface Vessel) radar, with the Yagi-Uda antennae carried above the wings. The Barracuda Mk III was an ASW Mk II; changes...
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the war. Mark III replaced the earlier Mark II which had been in service since 1940. Mark II had an antenna that received signals from radar systems,...
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integral radar systems. The classification included subcategories, Number 1 through 8, as well as the many individual systems which were assigned Marks. Some...
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Coastal Command. ASV gave it to them. The previous AI.II (Mark 2 Airborne Interception) radar became ASV.II (Air to Surface Vessel Mark 2) fitted in Coastal...
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XIV, a twin-engined, long-range medium bomber and this variant had ASV Mark III radar and rocket rails under the wings, and No. 220 Squadron, which operated...
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of the electronics from an obsolete ASV Mark I radar set with the display system of the GL Mk. II. Using the ASV's 1.5 m electronics meant they could have...
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Swordfish Mark II was fitted with ASV Mark II radar, the first instance of a carrier aircraft equipped with air-to-surface-vessel (ASV) radar, and RP-3...
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as well as on Milan and Turin. RAF Coastal Command first deploys ASV Mark III radar. March 1–2 (overnight) – Royal Air Force Bomber Command flies the...
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air-to-surface-vessel (ASV) radar and, through it, aircraft interception (AI) radar, to fruition. In 1937, Bowen's team set their crude ASV radar, the world's first...
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appearing in almost all airborne microwave radars, including the H2S radar and ASV Mark III radar. Post-war intelligence revealed that the Germans were baffled...
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SW1C (redirect from CSC (radar))
functional ASV Mark II radar to the NRC team. This system also operated on the 1.5 m (200 MHz) band, which was being used by a variety of British radars. After...
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Firefly, postwar in the Sea Hornet N.F. Mark 21. ASV – Air to Surface Vessel radar. A 1.5 metre (200 MHz) VHF radar that could detect surfaced submarines...
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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)...
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Radar, Aircraft Interception, Mark VIII, or AI Mk. VIII for short, was the first operational microwave-frequency air-to-air radar. It was used by Royal...
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