Airborne maritime surveillance radar. Volume 1, British ASV radars in WWII 1939-1945 /

Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, or more generally airborne maritime surveillance radars, are installed on maritime reconnaissance aircraft for long-range detection, tracking and classification of surface ships (ASuW--anti-surface warfare) and for hunting submarines (ASW--anti-submarine wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watts, Simon, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Radar > Military applications > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Airplanes, Military > Radar equipment.
Radar in aeronautics.
World War, 1939-1945 > Radar.
Applied physics.
SCIENCE / Applied Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. ASV radar development
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. RAF Coastal Command
  • 1.3. Airborne radar development and trials organisations
  • 1.4. The first airborne radar
  • 1.5. Outline of the book
  • 2. ASV Mk. I and II
  • 2.1. ASV Mk. I
  • 2.2. ASV Mk. II
  • 2.3. The value of ASV Mk. II
  • 3. ASV Mk. III
  • 3.1. Operational requirement for ASV in October 1942
  • 3.2. Centimetric airborne radar development and trials
  • 3.3. ASV Mk. III description
  • 3.4. ASV Mk. IIIC
  • 3.5. Improvements to ASV Mk. III
  • 3.6. Detection performance of ASV Mk. III
  • 3.7. Conclusions
  • 4. ASV Mk. VI
  • 4.1. Requirement for ASV Mk. VI
  • 4.2. ASV Mk. VI, ARI 5568
  • 4.3. ASV Mk. VIA, ARI 5571
  • 4.4. ASV Mk. VIB, ARI 5604
  • 4.5. ASV Mk. VIA in a Wellington XIV
  • 4.6. ASV Mk. VIC on Sunderland aircraft, ARI 5634
  • 4.7. ASV Mk. VI performance
  • 4.8. Improvements to ASV Mk. VI
  • 5. ASV Mk VII
  • 5.1. Development of ASV Mk. VII
  • 6. Lucero
  • 6.1. The Lucero interrogator
  • 6.2. Lucero trials results
  • 7. Comparative performance assessment
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. ASV Mk. II and III
  • 7.3. ASV Mks III, VI and VII
  • 8. Conclusions
  • 8.1. Other ASV radars
  • 8.2. The schnorkel
  • 8.3. Coastal Command at the end of WWII.

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