The SCR-584 (short for Set, Complete, Radio # 584) was an automatic-tracking microwave radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War...
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Radar, Anti-Aircraft No. 3 Mk. 7 (section SCR-584)
Production was not taken up at that time due to the imminent arrival of the SCR-584. The concept was studied again in the immediate post-war era, further improvements...
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Signal Corps Radio (section SCR radio sets)
and large microwave radar systems such as the SCR-584 radar. The SCS designator was applied to groups of SCR-numbered sets comprising an extensive system...
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out of date, having been replaced by the much smaller and more accurate SCR-584 microwave-based system. The Signal Corps had been experimenting with some...
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solutions for anti-aircraft weapons against enemy aircraft. When cued by the SCR-584 centimetric gun-laying radar and used in concert with anti-aircraft guns...
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it. Ground-based radars like the SCR-584 automated this process early in their evolution. In search mode the SCR-584 rotated its antenna through 360 degrees...
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three rows of batteries with additional searchlights. US units deployed SCR-584 radar units controlling four 90 mm guns per battery using an M9 director...
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The SCR-784 was a radar set used by the U.S. Army designed to be an amphibious version of the SCR-584, to control the fire of anti-aircraft batteries...
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radar for 130 mm anti-aircraft guns. It was a Soviet derivative of the US SCR-584 system. SON-9 SON-50 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Foss, Christopher F. (1974)...
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to develop microwave radars, one of the first projects resulted in the SCR-584, the most widely recognized radar system of the war era. This system included...
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addition of the SCR-584 microwave radar, which was accurate to about 0.06 degrees (1 mil) and also provided automatic tracking. With the SCR-584, direction...
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lock-follow or auto-follow. Its first operational use was in the US ground-based SCR-584 radar, which demonstrated the ability to easily track almost any airborne...
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the fruits of the Tizard Mission came back to Britain in the form of the SCR-584 radar set and the proximity fuze, which were used to help defeat the V-1...
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widespread deployment in 1943, when they were quickly overtaken by the US SCR-584, and production was curtailed. About 1,500 of the two systems were delivered...
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on an older SON-4 Soviet design that was in turn based on a US-origin SCR-584 system, the plans for which were provided to the USSR during the Second...
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Defence College of Air and Space Operations (redirect from SCR.584 Training Unit RAF)
1945 at RAF Drem as the SCR.584 Training Unit RAF, this unit used Supermarine Spitfires to train crews how to use the SCR.584 anti-aircraft gun-laying...
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in their flak units. The systems included: Gee, Oboe, LORAN, H2X, MEW & SCR-584. Trump worked with all the most important British radar experts, including...
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other being Louis Ridenour) of the research group which developed the SCR-584, an automatic microwave tracking fire-control system, which enabled M9...
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during World War II, responsible for the development and deployment of the SCR-584 radar system. Lee Losee Davenport was born on December 31, 1915, in Schenectady...
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fields. Among their notable products were the SCR-584, the finest gun-laying radar of the war, and the SCR-720, an aircraft interception radar that became...
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guns, initially with an associated searchlight, SCR-268 radar (replaced later by the much-improved SCR-584), M10 gun director, and M4 Gun Data Computer that...
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greater success. Under the lend-lease program, 200 US 90 mm AA guns with SCR-584 radars and Western Electric/Bell Labs computers were sent to the UK. These...
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radar. Antenna guidance can be made entirely automatic, as in the American SCR-584. Potential failure modes and susceptibility to deception jamming led to...
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radar beacon in the missile and radio command guidance from a tracking SCR-584 radar. With its Ford-produced PJ31 pulsejet powerplant, the JB-2 was one...
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computer used by the US Army for coast defence fire control and in the SCR-584 radar system computer. Higgins 1982. Higgins 1982, p. 232: "...The development...
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signals they received. One of the first successful fire-control radars, the SCR-584, was used effectively and extensively by the Allies during World War II...
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SCR-602 Lightweight early warning radar SCR-658 Weather balloon tracking radar SCR-584 Fire-control radar SCR-784 Fire-control radar AN/TSQ-81 Bomb Directing...
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Samuel A. Dressin redesigned the system (e.g., switched from the SCR-584 to the SCR-784 radar),[citation needed] and the TPQ-2 was demonstrated at Camp...
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release point. Based on the World War II SCR-584 radar developed by MIT and which was used for the "SCR-584-M missile control Receiver and beacon", the...
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The radar-based M-9/SCR-584 Anti-Aircraft System was used to direct air defense artillery since 1943. The MIT Radiation Lab's SCR-584 was the first radar...
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