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...
33 KB (4,132 words) - 07:32, 17 April 2024
On the morning of 7 December 1941 the SCR-270 radar at the Opana Radar Site on northern Oahu detected a large number of aircraft approaching from the...
13 KB (1,596 words) - 21:40, 4 February 2023
reaching 1 MW in late-war upgrades. The German Freya and US CXAM (Navy) and SCR-270 (Army) were similar. Post-war models moved to the microwave range in ever-increasingly...
6 KB (839 words) - 00:56, 16 August 2024
salvaged for the SCR-270 they were building. Nevertheless, the system entered production at Western Electric about the same time as the -270 in 1939. The...
10 KB (1,333 words) - 17:27, 4 June 2024
Signal Corps Radio (section SCR radio sets)
SCR-268 searchlight and gun control SCR-270 mobile long range early warning, VHF SCR-271 fixed long range early warning, VHF SCR-277 Radio range SCR-289...
5 KB (444 words) - 18:03, 13 February 2024
similar to their own existing Chain Home, the Navy's CXAM and the Army's SCR-270. This began to break the ice between the two groups. Two previous attempts...
18 KB (2,616 words) - 19:40, 19 July 2024
accommodate the production of the then highly-secret SCR-270 aircraft warning radar. In 1941, an SCR-270 radar detected the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor...
6 KB (730 words) - 12:01, 19 April 2024
Radar Reaches the Moon". Retrieved July 13, 2022. "Army Radar: SCR-268, SCR-270 & SCR-271". Camp Evans — Wall, New Jersey. CampEvans.org. January 3, 2004...
30 KB (2,972 words) - 09:10, 24 July 2024
Detachment (the planes were embarked on Saratoga); as well as an SCR-270 air search radar and an SCR-268 fire control radar for the 3-inch guns, and a large amount...
87 KB (9,971 words) - 21:20, 7 September 2024
The main Soviet air-defense radar in the 1950s was the American-supplied SCR-270, or locally made copies, which were only effective up to 40,000 ft (12...
81 KB (10,347 words) - 00:16, 8 September 2024
term used to designate radio sets SCR (Signal Corps Radio)-268 and SCR-270 and similar equipment". The SCR-268 and 270 were not radios at all, but were...
47 KB (5,595 words) - 17:00, 25 June 2024
the SCR-268 went into service, Harold Zahl was working at the SCL in developing a better system. The SCR-270 was the mobile version, and the SCR-271 a...
141 KB (22,067 words) - 20:52, 27 July 2024
Chain Home and Chain Home Low Würzburg radar Hohentwiel radar H2S radar SCR-270 radar ITU (2020). "Chapter I – Terminology and technical characteristics"...
99 KB (11,851 words) - 20:54, 9 September 2024
SCR-268 entered service, it had been greatly improved. In a project led by Major (Dr.) Harold A. Zahl, two new configurations evolved – the SCR-270 (mobile)...
151 KB (22,275 words) - 00:07, 25 August 2024
of the Coral Sea. The US Army's first non-prototype radar system, the SCR-270, was developed in parallel with the CXAM. CXAM First version, six produced...
8 KB (719 words) - 14:11, 5 August 2023
Operating Truck for the SCR-270, an early-warning radar of World War II. 2) 3) 4) Similar vehicles were the K-31 power truck for the SCR-270 early warning radar...
5 KB (399 words) - 00:17, 6 August 2023
the first wave approached Oahu, it was detected by United States Army SCR-270 radar positioned at Opana Point near the island's northern tip. This post...
154 KB (16,168 words) - 15:14, 3 September 2024
the auroras was done in 1949 by the University of Saskatchewan using the SCR-270 radar. The altitudes where auroral emissions occur were revealed by Carl...
117 KB (13,068 words) - 07:45, 31 August 2024
and 8-bay designs might increase this to 12 to 16 dB. The 32-element SCR-270 had a gain around 19.8 dB. Some very large reflective arrays have been...
14 KB (1,633 words) - 04:32, 23 April 2024
site of the US's first operationally deployed early warning radar when an SCR-270 was installed there in 1941. The fort contained the following batteries...
4 KB (528 words) - 23:25, 1 November 2023
chassis, with van bodies by York-Hoover—607 were built for use of the SCR-270 early warning radar system by the U.S. Signal Corps. As part of the same...
19 KB (1,930 words) - 22:27, 1 November 2023
of the SCR-268 and SCR-270 Army radars. Just a few months after he retired (September 30, 1941), two Signal Corps soldiers — using an SCR-270 radar at...
9 KB (887 words) - 20:25, 23 April 2024
K-65 trailer, house, SCR-270 G-700 trailer 5-ton K-76 trailer, K-77 trailer, for SCR-527 G-701 semitrailer 6-ton, K-67 trailer, SCR-547 antenna mount G-702...
71 KB (9,859 words) - 19:51, 31 July 2024
provided No 52 Radar Unit in March 1943 with GCI radar, which (unlike the SCR 270 radar) could provide altitudes of approaching enemy planes. Henderson Field...
20 KB (1,361 words) - 20:49, 20 June 2024
signal.army.mil/ocos/museum/equipment.asp Fort Gordon Museum, SCR and BC list k-13/k-14 trailers http://www.tpub.com/content/radar/TM-11-487C-1/index...
17 KB (432 words) - 12:30, 30 April 2024
that an SCR-270 and two SCR-271s were already in transit to the Philippines by ship for use by the air warning company, with three more SCR-270s to follow...
86 KB (12,465 words) - 17:57, 13 August 2024
such as the SCR-270 or AN/TPS-1 came online the SCR-602 could also be used to fill in gaps in radar coverage. Early versions of the SCR-602 were based...
9 KB (1,081 words) - 02:12, 21 August 2024
radar Radar picket United States Installed on ships SCR-268 radar Radar United States SCR-270 Radar United States SJ radar Radar United States Submarine...
35 KB (1,803 words) - 21:25, 3 August 2024
range search radar SCR-268 Fire-control radar SCR-270 Early warning radar SCR-527 Early warning radar SCR-547 Height finding radar SCR-602 Lightweight early...
115 KB (12,795 words) - 01:29, 27 August 2024
U8144 truck with York-Hoover van body, was used as the power truck for the SCR-270, an early warning radar of World War II. The power it delivered to the...
4 KB (358 words) - 00:16, 6 August 2023