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6 unusual facts about radar


103P/Hartley

Radar observations by the Arecibo Observatory during the comet's 2010 apparition revealed that the nucleus is highly elongated and rotates over an 18-hour period.

Ménil-en-Xaintois

During the Second World War, exploiting the excellent views of the surrounding area from the higher ground in the commune, the German military installed a radar base which operated from 1941 until September 1944.

Radar-absorbent material

The Republic of China (Taiwan)'s military has also successfully developed radar-absorbing paint which is currently used on Taiwanese stealth warships and the Taiwanese built stealth jet fighter which is currently in development in response to the development of stealth technology by their rival the mainland People's Republic of China (PRC) which is known to have displayed both stealth warships and planes to the public.

SLAF Mirigama

A Chinese JY-11 Radar low/medium altitude 3D surveillance radar has been installed since 2008 as part of the National Air Defence System of Sri Lanka.

Wangensteen suction

In the episode "Good Bye, Radar" of the television series M*A*S*H, a makeshift Wangensteen suction is created by Colonel Potter using odds and ends.

Wash and Set

In the M*A*S*H episode, Radar's Report, Frank advances and mistakes Klinger under a hair dryer for Margaret, after which Klinger exclaims, "Can't a guy have a wash and set without somebody biting him on the neck?!!"


547th Intelligence Squadron

Trained in Southern California, under IV Fighter Command initially equipped with specifically modified twin-seat black painted P-38M Lightnings equipped with AN/APS-6 radar in an external radome underneath the nose, relocated radio equipment and anti-flash gun muzzles.

6075 Zajtsev

Zaitsev is also responsible for initiating the world's first intercontinental radar astronomy experiment, 70-m dish of the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex to 70-m dish of the EPR observations of 6489 Golevka in June 1995.

Air Astana

Originally conceived as purely domestic airline, BAE Systems agreed in mid-2001 to participate in the proposed start-up at the request of Kazakhstan's head of state, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in order to facilitate an air radar contract it was then negotiating with the Government of Kazakhstan.

Air Ministry Experimental Station

AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight - Ferranti

Albert Percival Rowe

Rowe replaced Robert Watson-Watt as Superindentent of the Bawdsey Research Station where the Chain Home RDF system was developed, and in 1938–1945 was the Chief Superintendent of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), which carried out pioneering research on microwave radar.

Alexander Zaytsev

Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev (born 1945), Russian scientist in radar astronomy and SETI

Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia

It operates "Peace Shield" a state-of-the-art radar and air defense system consisting of a Command Operations Center at Riyadh, and main operating bases at Dhahran, Taif, Tabuk, Khamis Mushait and Al Kharj.

Atmospheric physics

RADAR, LIDAR, and SODAR are examples of active remote sensing techniques used in atmospheric physics where the time delay between emission and return is measured, establishing the location, height, speed and direction of an object.

Azerbaijani Air Forces

Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.

Belleville Air Force Station

Belleville AFS was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network, primarily to provide air defense radar coverage for Saint Louis and Scott Air Force Base.

Beta Pictoris

In 2000, observations made with the Advanced Meteor Orbit Radar facility in New Zealand revealed the presence of a stream of particles coming from the direction of Beta Pictoris, which may be a dominant source of interstellar meteoroids in our solar system.

C. Lorenz AG

Military products from Lorenz during WWII included land-based and airborne radars, two-way radio sets, wire recorders, radio tubes, and Germany’s most secure communications device, the Lorenz cipher machine.

Carmi

Carmi Air Force Station, a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station

Catalina affair

The first aircraft to be shot down was an unarmed Swedish Air Force Tp 79, a derivative of the Douglas DC-3, carrying out radio and radar signals intelligence-gathering for the National Defence Radio Establishment.

Colin Jost

Jost has published three "Shouts and Murmurs" pieces in The New Yorker magazine, in addition to writing for The New York Times Magazine, the Huffington Post, the Staten Island Advance and Radar.

Commander, Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet

In 1955, Barrier Force, Atlantic had been established in Argentia, Newfoundland, flying radar early-warning missions using the WV-2 (EC-121 Warning Star aircraft in the North Atlantic from 1957.

Decca Radar

(The radar was named after the number of the London bus that passed the Brixton laboratory where the radar was designed and manufactured.)

Doppler radar

Normally it is one or the other; a radar designed for detecting targets from zero to Mach 2 does not have a high resolution in speed, while a radar designed for high resolution velocity measurements does not have a wide range of speeds.

Egis

An acronym for Erieye Ground Interface Segment, military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system and is sometimes confused with the Aegis combat system.

El Hierro Airport

At present, it has the SACTA 3.5 system, which allows radar visualization of the radar data, and voice equipment model CD-30.

Electronic navigation

Radar navigation, the use of radar to determine position relative to known objects

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower

The concept of a fleet patrol aircraft was superseded by the wartime development of effective Air to Surface (ASV) radar that could be fitted in long-range patrol aircraft such as the Consolidated Liberator I.

Gregory Charvat

Charvat has authored or co-authored numerous journals, proceedings, magazine articles, and seminars on topics including applied electromagnetics, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and phased array radar systems, radio frequency (RF) and analog design.

Heinz Zemanek

Returning to studying radar technology he earned his Diplom in 1944 with the help of University of Stuttgart professor Richard Feldtkeller (1901-1981).

HMS Valkyrie

This was established in about 1940, mainly to provide advanced courses for radio (radar) mechanics, both male and female (the latter in the Women's Royal Naval Service or Wrens).

James Murdoch Austin

Austin was married for 59 years to Dr. Pauline Morrow Austin, who for years directed the MIT Weather Radar project.

James Stanley Hey

His task was to work on radar anti-jamming methods; for a year German jamming of Allied radar had been a problem and the escape of two German warships (Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) through the English Channel, aided by enemy radar jamming from the French Coast, had highlighted the problem.

Jerre Noe

Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

Karel Doorman-class support ship

All sensor systems are housed in an integrated mast, provided by Thales Nederland, called the I-Mast 400, comprising a SeaMaster 400 SMILE air warning radar, a SeaWatcher 100 active phased-array surface detection and tracking radar and the GateKeeper infra-red/electro-optical (EO) warning system.

Matla-ul-fajr

In the same year, a project to enhance the capabilities of radar was started by SAIRAN and Isfahan University of Technology.

Nicholas Byron Cavadias

Specializing in the application of electronics to aviation, Cavadias began his career at TAE Greek National Airlines in 1946 as a radio engineer before becoming a ground radar specialist with the Royal Air Force in 1953.

North Warning System

Motorola AN/FPS-23 short range search radar was installed at the Intermediate sites, used as fillers to cover any Long Range Radar surveillance gaps.

P-70 Ametist

The P-15M was fitted with an L band sensor and a new altimeter radar both developed for the 'Siren', but there was no room for a datalink in the smaller 'Styx'.

Pirinçlik Air Base

Subsequent installation of another AN/FPS-17 radar on Shemya, a western island in the chain of Aleutian Islands off Alaska, made it possible for U.S. observers to monitor Soviet missile test flights to the Kamchatka peninsula.

Rad Lab

The wartime Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which aided in the development of radar

RAF Beachy Head

RAF Station Beachy Head was a Royal Air Force (RAF) radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East Sussex, England.

RAF Trimingham

In May 1996 the Marconi Type 91 'Martello' radar at Trimingham was sold to the Turkish Ministry of Defence and it was replaced by what used to be known as No 86 Signals Unit, with a Type 93 (Plessey type ADGE-305, NATO designation TGRI 50011) that had been moved from Hopton when that base was closed.

RCAF Station Mont Apica

RCAF Mont Apica (later Canadian Forces Station or CFS Mont Apica) (ADC ID: C-1) was a radar station of the Pinetree Line, located in Mont-Apica, Quebec, Canada, during the Cold War.

RRH Portreath

New mobile, Marconi Electronic Systems manufactured, radar systems, including an S723 Martello (RAF Type 91), and telecommunication installations were added during the mid-1980s.

Sault Sainte Marie Air Force Station

In November 1950, the 753d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated by Air Defense Command at a temporary "Lashup" radar site located at Sault Sainte Marie Airport, to provide radar defense coverage for the area.

Shilka

Shilka, alternative name of ZSU-23-4, a Russian self-propelled radar-guided anti-aircraft weapon system

Shmel

Beriev A-50 Shmel airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft, or its Russian radar

South Wales, New York

WGRZ's broadcast tower and in-house weather radar are based in the hamlet.

SRF Airspace monitoring and management system

From 1955 to 1966, a school complex in Dübendorf (the "Radar Doerfli" (Radar Village) on the training site Dürrbach Rüti bei Riggisberg), one on the top of Bütschelegg (above Bern-Belp) and the plants on height locations (mountain peaks) were formed for the first radar aerial surveillance system of Switzerland.

STN Atlas

STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company, producing sensors and other electronic or computer components such as Radar, Sonar, fire-control systems, simulations.

Sud Aviation Vautour

The IIB bomber lacked radar or any other modern nav/attack systems, weapons being aimed by the bombardier in a glass nose section with a World War II-vintage Norden bombsight.

Swedish Air Force weapons

With air-to-air missiles odd numbers indicated radar seekers like the Rb 71 or Sky Flash, even numbers indicate IR seekers like the Rb 98 or IRIS-T off-boresight air-to-air missile.

Valhalla Brewery

In 2012 the brewery moved to a building at the former RAF Saxa Vord radar station, near Haroldswick.

Weather Star 4000

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