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    Lock-on is a feature of many radar systems that allow it to automatically follow a selected target. Lock-on was first designed for the AI Mk. IX radar...
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  • Radar Lock is a 1989 video game developed and published by Atari for the Atari 2600. The game was announced in 1988, and was programmed by Doug Neubauer...
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  • The 2018 Japan–South Korea radar lock-on dispute is about an incident between a Japanese airplane and a South Korean warship. The aircraft was part of...
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  • automated systems like radar lock-on to confuse the system. Various Electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCMs) can sometimes help radar operators maintain...
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  • Lock-on or Lock On may refer to: Radar lock-on, where a radar automatically tracks a selected target Lock-on (protest tactic), when one or more protesters...
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    Such systems often combine two radar frequencies in the same antenna in order to allow automatic steering, or radar lock. Parabolic reflectors can be either...
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    when firing the AIM-54. The act of the missile achieving a radar lock with its own radar is known under brevity as "Going Pitbull". Both the missile...
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  • energy for the entire flight of the missile, and in fact do not require a radar lock to launch at all, only target tracking information. This gives the target...
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  • computer predicts the selected rocket, bullet or bomb will hit. Normally a radar lock is necessary, but when strafing or bombing a ground target (A/G mode;...
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  • technique used to break radar lock-on. The basic concept is to produce a pulse of radio signal similar to the one that the target radar would produce when...
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    maximum cruising range. LOCKED 1.  (with GROUP label) Radar lock-on; SORT is not assumed.[A/A] 2.  (with position) Radar lock-on; correct targeting is...
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    lock. Lock exists in no other type of radar. The lock criterion needs to be satisfied during normal operation. Pulse-Doppler signal processing § Lock...
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  • boresight, causing the radar to "walk away" from the target and break its radar lock-on. It is also known as angle walk-off, angle stealing, or inverse con-scan...
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    Blackbird routine flights over the Baltic Sea, had managed to achieve radar lock-on with radar on the SR-71 on numerous occasions. Despite heavy jamming from...
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  • missiles, one of which was a dud. At the same time, as-Sammarai achieved radar lock on Hehemann and fired an R-40 missile, which went ballistic after as-Sammarai...
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  • vehicles reflect radio waves, thus creating radar clutter, which adversely affects radar-detection and radar-lock performance.[citation needed] The trajectories...
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    Korea radar lock-on dispute – Japan alleged a South Korean navy destroyer irradiated a Japanese maritime patrol aircraft with STIR 1.8. Note. This radar is...
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    small radar system to conduct terminal guidance to the target. This eliminates the requirement for the firing aircraft to maintain radar lock, and thus...
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    It! Missile Command Night Driver Pac-Man Pitfall! Pong Pressure Cooker Radar Lock RealSports Basketball Return to Haunted House River Raid Saboteur Save...
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    Saturn), also referred to by the NATO reporting name "Bar Lock" in the west, is a 2D E band/F band radar developed and operated by the former Soviet Union. The...
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  • three occasions, they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds, but these were later shown to be Radar-locks on each other. The pilots never reported...
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    SR-71's speed, altitude, and heading were also often enough to spoil any radar lock on the plane by SAM sites or enemy fighters. At sustained speeds of more...
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    incoming missiles. The system detects a threat radar in its acquisition mode and tries to prevent it from locking by using jamming techniques. The onboard electronic...
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    (July 27, 2018). "NTSB report: Captain of duck boat said he checked weather radar before departing". CNN. Herskovitz, Jon; Cherelus, Gina (July 22, 2018)...
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    war. The R.530 required a radar lock from the Cyrano radar of the Mirage III in order to be launched, but the Cyrano radar was severely hampered by ground...
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    (logistics). The missiles require a radar lock to initially steer the missile to the target until the missile's onboard radar system takes over to provide final...
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    can lock-on to a target from various angles, not just from behind, where the heat signature from the engines is strongest. Other types rely on radar guidance...
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    the radar's narrow beam width. This phase is also called "lighting up". It ends when lock-on is acquired. Acquisition phase The fire-control radar switches...
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  • more, while a search radar will scan a larger volume less frequently. Missile lock-on describes the scenario where a targeting radar has acquired a target...
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    breaking a Doppler radar-lock, as the relative speed of the aircraft drops below the threshold where the signal registers to the radar. Some variants of...
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