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    A radar picket is a radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a nation or military...
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    the kamikaze demonstrated the need for a long range radar umbrella around the fleet. Radar picket destroyers and destroyer escorts were put into service...
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    the kamikaze demonstrated the need for a long range radar umbrella around the fleet. Radar picket destroyers and destroyer escorts were put into service...
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    (AEW) was used for earlier similar aircraft used in the less-demanding radar picket role, such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star...
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    Samuel Chamberlain. Picket boat, small naval launch, used for patrolling harbour defences Radar picket Screening (tactic) Screw picket Skirmisher Point man...
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    the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, being converted to a radar picket submarine under project MIGRAINE. Her four stern torpedo tubes were removed...
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    Whitman, Edward C. (Winter–Spring 2002). "Cold War Curiosities: U.S. Radar Picket Submarines". Undersea Warfare. Archived from the original on 20 December...
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  • modification to become a radar picket, with the addition of the Sea Cat missile, as well as new anti-aircraft weaponry and new radar. In 1963 Barrosa joined...
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  • ahead of the main formation Radar picket, a radar equipped vehicle on picket duty Picket boat, a small military boat Picket (Polish: pikieta), a slang...
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    to have fighters intercept the Japanese as early as possible. Sixteen radar picket stations were established around the island, in some cases almost 100...
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    DEG (Destroyer Escort, Guided missile), and DER (Destroyer Escort, Radar picket). The Lend-Lease Act was passed into law in the US in March 1941 enabling...
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    United Nations Forces during the Korean War, underwent conversion to a radar picket destroyer from 1 April to 1 December 1953, alternated operations along...
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    The Guardian-class radar picket ships were a class of ocean radar picket ships (YAGR, later AGR), converted 1954–1958 from World War II Liberty ships...
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    with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She served again as a radar picket ship from 1955 to 1960 and was sold for scrapping in 1966. She was named...
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    of these Liberty ships were converted 1954–1958 into Guardian-class radar picket ship In preparation for the Normandy landings and afterward to support...
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  • to have fighters intercept the Japanese as early as possible. Sixteen radar picket stations were established around the island, in some cases almost 100...
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    type which overlaps somewhat with picket boats Radar picket, a larger ship or submarine, used to extend the range of radar coverage. Crash boats of World...
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    fighter director ship. She received special radio and radar equipment and completed radar picket training before departing on 27 January 1945 for the invasion...
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  • to have fighters intercept the Japanese as early as possible. Sixteen radar picket stations were established around the island of Okinawa in preparation...
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    USS Triton (SSRN-586) (category Radar picket ships of the United States Navy)
    (SSRN/SSN-586), the only member of her class, was a nuclear powered radar picket submarine in the United States Navy. She was the only Western submarine...
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    conversion to a radar picket ship. She recommissioned at Vallejo, California, 12 February 1951 and, as the first of a new class of radar picket ships, she...
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    exception of Richey, all were recommissioned as Navy manned destroyer escort radar picket ships.[citation needed] After World War II most, if not all, early warning...
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    when struck by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 12 April 1945 while on radar picket duty off Okinawa. She, with USS LSM(R)-190, rescued survivors from USS Mannert...
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    covering duty in the invasion of Saipan four days later. In addition to radar picket and screening duty, she was also called upon for inshore fire support...
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    on 7 December 1955, Camp was recommissioned 31 July 1956 for duty as radar picket ship in the early warning system. At this time, her two 5-inch 38 guns...
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  • Research Ship AGOS: Ocean Surveillance Ship AGP: Patrol Craft Tender AGR: Radar Picket Ship (retired) AGS: Survey ship AGSC: Coastal survey craft AGSL: Auxiliary...
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    USS Scanner (category Guardian-class radar picket ships)
    USS Scanner (AGR/YAGR-5) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a liberty ship, acquired by the United States Navy in 1955. She was obtained...
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    in the Navy at Long Beach Naval Shipyard after being converted to a radar picket escort vessel. Lowe joined Escort Squadron 5 at Seattle, Washington....
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    London to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where she was converted to a radar picket submarine by bisecting her at the forward bulkhead of the control room...
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    north of the Arctic Circle near Labrador. In January 1948, designated a radar picket submarine, her hull classification symbol was changed from SS to SSR...
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