The SCR-268 (for Signal Corps Radio no. 268) was the United States Army's first radar system. Introduced in 1940, it was developed to provide accurate...
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version was the SCR-784. In 1937, America's first fire-control radar, the SCR-268 radar, had proven to be insufficiently accurate due in part to its long...
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The SCR-270 was one of the first operational early-warning radars. It was the U.S. Army's primary long-distance radar throughout World War II and was...
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The SCR-658 radar is a radio direction finding set introduced by the U. S. Army in 1944, was developed in conjunction with the SCR-268 radar. It was preceded...
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following May, the captors found two U.S. Army radars, an SCR-268 in operating condition and a heavily damaged SCR-270. In a rare cooperative effort, the Army...
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newly developed SCR-268 radar to provide fire control quality data to the Sperry Corporation's M4 mechanical gun director. The SCR-268's longwave did not...
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Japanese radars used during World War II. Radar used by the Imperial Japanese Army. Ta-Chi 1 Ground-Based Target Tracking Radar Model 1 - SCR-268 1.5 meter...
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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...
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connected to new antennas and a unique lobe switching system. The American SCR-268 and German Würzburg were generally similar in concept, but the SLC was...
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array radar AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar AN/TPY-2 Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) AN/UPS-1 Short range search radar SCR-268 Fire-control...
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Radar equipment Name Image Type Origin Notes CXAM radar Radar picket United States Installed on ships SCR-268 radar Radar United States SCR-270 Radar...
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African-American artist At Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, the SCR-268 radar, the first radar system to be put into regular use, was demonstrated to the U...
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two fixed-location SCR-271s were in storage. USAFFE also received 11 sets of SCR-268 antiaircraft radars, a searchlight-control radar that could also be...
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Defense Group behind and exchanged the aircraft sound locators for SCR-268 radar sets. In March 1942 the battalion was relieved by the Army's 61st Coast...
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development. Designated SCR-268, a prototype was successfully demonstrated in late 1938 at Fort Monroe, Virginia. The production of SCR-268 sets was started...
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K28 may refer to: K-28 (Kansas highway) K-28 trailer, part of the SCR-268 radar system Rio Grande class K-28, an American steam locomotive Sonata in C...
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Signal Corps Radio (section SCR radio sets)
the SCR-299 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...
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identical system was used in the United States's first gun-laying radar, the SCR-268. The Würzburg D was introduced in 1941 and added a conical scanning...
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stations" (ME, NJ, & 6 in CA), and Oahu's Opana Mobile Radar Station had 1 of 6 SCR-270s. CONUS "Army Radar Station" deployments for World War II were primarily...
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The SCR-602 (Set Complete Radio model 602) also known as the AN/TPS-3, was a mobile, lightweight, medium-range, early-warning radar utilized by the United...
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radar (Japanese SCR-268) Type 2 Mark 4 Model 2 anti-aircraft fire-control radar (Japanese SCR-268) (S24 anti-aircraft fire-control radar) Type 3 air Mark...
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trailer, a 7-ton, 2 axle U.S. Signal Corps vehicle associated with SCR-268 radar station This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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Reservation was built in 1941 on state land. It consisted of an early SCR-268 radar, searchlight station, and an observation post. It was returned to the...
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VT-158 (category Military radars of the United States)
lightweight warning (LW) radar, which the Signal Corps studied for ideas. After testing the VT-158 in various existing sets such as the SCR-268, a team led by Captain...
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possession of three radars that November – two SCR-268 Fire-control radars and one SCR-270B mobile long range radar. Because radar was still top secret...
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow (section SCR-720 radar)
housed an evolved form of the SCR-268 Signal Corps Radar, the Western Electric Company's SCR-720A. Immediately behind the radar was the multi-framed "greenhouse"...
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Service defined RADAR as "a term used to designate radio sets SCR (Signal Corps Radio)-268 and SCR-270 and similar equipment". The SCR-268 and 270 were not...
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ISBN 979-8-706-54632-8. "Project Diana: Radar Reaches the Moon". Retrieved July 13, 2022. "Army Radar: SCR-268, SCR-270 & SCR-271". Camp Evans — Wall, New Jersey...
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Japanese aircraft during July. At noon on July 2, the battalion's SCR-602 and SCR-270 radars were inoperable when a large Japanese formation of aircraft attacked...
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covering US Army radars like SCR-268, SCR-270, SCR-271 and SCR-516 ABK – US version covering US Navy radars as well as common ground radars A Geneva drive...
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