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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...
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    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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    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    out of date, having been replaced by the much smaller and more accurate SCR-584 microwave-based system.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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  • 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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