H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system. It was developed for the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command during World War II to identify targets...
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detecting centimetric radar. Two versions were widely used, the FuG 350 Naxos Z that allowed night fighters to home in on H2S radars carried by RAF Bomber...
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LORAN Sonar Historical radars List of radars Chain Home and Chain Home Low Würzburg radar Hohentwiel radar H2S radar SCR-270 radar ITU (2020). "Chapter...
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H2S is the chemical formula of hydrogen sulfide. H2S may also refer to: Dynali H2S, a Belgian helicopter design H2S radar, the first airborne ground-mapping...
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Search Radar H2S radar - British navigation radar H2X radar X band bombing and navigational radar nicknamed as Mickey (equivalent to British H2S) by Philco...
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Command during World War II. It was a slightly modified version of the H2S radar used by RAF Bomber Command, with minor changes to the antenna to make...
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airborne, ground-mapping radar codenamed H2S; and was partly developed by Alan Blumlein and Bernard Lovell. The magnetron radars used by the US (e.g. H2X)...
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NOTICE. Metox was eventually countered by a version of the 3 cm (10 GHz) H2S radar, which Metox could not detect and once again the Leigh light forced U-boat...
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changes to the new H2S radar, mostly to the antenna. This started a furious debate between RAF Bomber Command, who wanted every H2S for their bombers,...
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Alan Blumlein (category Radar pioneers)
World War II, on 7 June 1942, aged 38, during the secret trial of an H2S airborne radar system then under development, when all on board the Halifax bomber...
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Berlin A - FuG 224: The first centimetric (3 GHz) band radar. Based on a captured H2S radar unit, codenamed "Rotterdams". Unknown number built but under...
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Plan position indicator (category Radar)
can mimic radar PPI displays too. Sir Bernard Lovell ECHOES OF WAR : The Story of H2S Radar ISBN 0-85274-317-3 Adapted from Microwave Radar At War (1)...
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Chaff (countermeasure) (redirect from Window (radar countermeasure))
fighters had the FuG 350 Naxos device to detect H2S radar (the first airborne, ground scanning radar system) emissions from the bombers. Six weeks after...
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microwave-frequency ASV radar, ASVS, was under development since 1941, but the required cavity magnetrons were in limited supply and priority was given to H2S. The capture...
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development of the H2S radar. To provide the accuracy required for terrain following, TFR systems have to be based on the monopulse radar concept. The monopulse...
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Cavity magnetron (redirect from Radar cavity)
magnetron to develop a revolutionary airborne, ground-mapping radar codenamed H2S. The H2S radar was in part developed by Alan Blumlein and Bernard Lovell...
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(3.3 GHz) microwave radars of World War II, developed after the capture of examples of the British cavity magnetron in the H2S radar. FuG 224 Berlin A of...
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and Mark Lester. Rednek, British dubstep musician. Red Neck, a H2S reconnaissance radar Rednex, a band This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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AN/APQ-13 (category Aircraft radars)
airborne H2X radar, itself developed from the first ground scanning radar, the British H2S radar. It was used on B-29s during World War II in the Pacific theater...
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Radome (redirect from Radar dome)
A radome (a portmanteau of radar and dome) is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material...
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1938), none had been suitable for military radars. In February 1943, a British bomber containing a H2S radar was shot down over the Netherlands, and the...
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AN/APQ-7 (redirect from Eagle radar)
frequency systems promising better performance over the existing British H2S radar were entering production. Eagle's even higher resolution was considered...
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Monica (radar), tail warning radar fitted to bombers H2S (radar), ground scanning radar fitted to bombers AI Mk. IV radar, airborne interception radar fitted...
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Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar. CRC Press. ISBN 9780852743171. White, Ian (2007). The History of Air Intercept (AI) Radar and the British Night-Fighter...
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Fishpond – British fighter warning radar add-on to H2S, fitted early 1944 to some bombers. Flensburg – FuG 227, German radar detector fitted to night fighters...
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1942 Herefordshire TRE Halifax crash (category Radar pioneers)
Establishment (TRE) at RAF Defford to be used as a flying testbed for the H2S radar. On the afternoon of 7 June 1942, one of its Rolls-Royce Merlin engines...
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second radar system named Red Setter to produce a side looking airborne radar (SLAR) system. This used the antenna and electronics from an H2S Mark IXA...
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The Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar was a short-range radio navigation system used for the dropping of airborne forces and their supplies. It consisted...
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Battle of the Ruhr (section H2S)
practical operation of war. H2S was a device for navigation and blind bombing by radar. The downward emissions of the radar were reflected and received...
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