Radar, Air-to-Surface Vessel, Mark II, or ASV Mk. II for short, was an airborne sea-surface search radar developed by the UK's Air Ministry immediately...
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Radar, Air-to-Surface Vessel, Mark III, or ASV Mk. III for short, was a surface search radar system used by RAF Coastal Command during World War II. It...
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Radar, Air-to-Surface Vessel, or ASV radar for short, is a classification used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to refer to a series of aircraft-mounted radar...
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equipped with ASV Mark III radar. A later model, Naxos ZR, provided warning of the approach of RAF night fighters equipped with AI Mk. VIII radar. Prior to...
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IV radar, airborne interception radar fitted to fighters AI Mk. VIII radar, airborne interception radar fitted to fighters ASV Mark II radar ASV Mark III...
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successful Air to Surface Vessel radar (ASV), from early 1940. ASV II was a re-packaged ASV I but otherwise similar. ASV II radar allowed Fleet Air Arm (FAA)...
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the Swordfish Mark II was fitted with ASV Mark II radar, the first instance of a carrier aircraft equipped with Air-to-Surface Vessel radar, and RP-3 rockets...
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RCA Corporation. Yagi antennas were first widely used during World War II in radar systems by Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States...
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Short Sunderland (category World War II British patrol aircraft)
aid combat operations, including the Leigh searchlight, the ASV Mark II and ASV Mark III radar units, and an astrodome. The Sunderland was one of the most...
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all of the other aircraft's ASV Mark II radar displays which they would then use to find the indicated area. These IIF Mark IIIG(R) (for Rooster) allowed...
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could be produced using radar. The first systems went into service in early 1943 as the H2S Mk. I and H2S Mk. II, as well as ASV Mark III. On its second operational...
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Vickers Wellington (redirect from Wellington Mk.II)
the aircraft. Type 454 and Type 459 Wellington Mark IX prototypes with ASV Mark II, ASV Mark III radars, and powered by two Bristol Hercules VI and XVI...
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ASV Mk. II - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV Mk. III - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV Mk. XI - Wartime air to surface vessel radar ASV...
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator (redirect from Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II)
space for crew members and, more vitally, ever more equipment such as ASV Mark II radar (anticipated early in the Liberator's development when Reuben Fleet...
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countermeasures, particularly radar warning receivers. In June 1941 an RAF bomber equipped with an ASV (Air-to-Surface Vessel) Mk II radar made an emergency landing...
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television receiver, was used as the basis of the ASV Mk. II radar, Chain Home Low, AMES Type 7, and many other radar systems throughout the war. By late 1935...
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Leigh Light (category World War II military equipment of the United Kingdom)
Early night operations with the new Air-to-Surface Vessel radar (ASV) demonstrated that the radar's minimum range of about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) meant that...
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and Curtiss SC Seahawk. In Fleet Air Arm and RAF service it was known as ASV Mark IX and equipped a number of aircraft including the Fairey Firefly, Fairey...
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Surface Vessel (ASV), and through it Airborne Interception (AI), radar to fruition. In 1937, Bowen's team set their crude ASV radar, the world's first...
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AI and air-to-surface vessel radar (ASV) systems, both of which would be widely used during the war. Practical ASV radars were operational in 1940, but...
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Hanbury Brown and John William Sutton Pringle. Rebecca was essentially an ASV radar fit to a new broadcaster unit, while the Eureka system was all-new. Initial...
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Firefly, postwar in the Sea Hornet N.F. Mark 21. ASV – Air to Surface Vessel radar. A 1.5 metre (200 MHz) VHF radar that could detect surfaced submarines...
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(NRC) took some of the ASV Mk. II radar units they had been sent and used these as the basis for a simple medium-range radar, the Zone Position Indicator...
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DMS-1000 (redirect from ASV Mark IV)
known in RAF service as ASV Mark V. United States. Military History, Office of the Chief of (1957). United States Army in World War II: Technical Services...
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Coastal Command. ASV gave it to them. The previous AI.II (Mark 2 Airborne Interception) radar became ASV.II (Air to Surface Vessel Mark 2) fitted in Coastal...
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Fairey Barracuda (redirect from Fairey Barracuda II)
(300), and Westland (13). The Barracuda Mk II carried the metric wavelength ASV II (Air to Surface Vessel) radar, with the Yagi-Uda antennae carried above...
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of the electronics from an obsolete ASV Mark I radar set with the display system of the GL Mk. II. Using the ASV's 1.5 m electronics meant they could have...
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SW1C (category World War II radars)
developed in less than two months by combining bits of the British ASV Mk. II radar and the NRC's own Night Watchman. After successful demonstrations in...
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Radar, Airborne Interception, Mark VIII, or AI Mk. VIII for short, was the first operational microwave-frequency air-to-air radar. It was used by Royal...
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ultimately abandoned in favour of building the fully developed British ASV Mark II design, which operated at much higher power levels. In France, researchers...
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