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Airborne maritime surveillance radar. Volume 2, British ASV radars in WWII 1946-2000
Author
Title
Airborne maritime surveillance radar. Volume 2, British ASV radars in WWII 1946-2000 / Simon Watts.
ISBN
9781643270722
9781643270708
9781643270692
Publication
San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Distribution
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Simon Watts graduated from the University of Oxford in 1971, obtained an MSc and DSc from the University of Birmingham in 1972 and 2013, respectively, and a PhD from the CNAA in 1987. He is author and co-author of over 80 journal and conference papers, a book on sea clutter, and Airborne Maritime Surveillance Radar.
Summary
Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, or more generally 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 warfare). Such radars were first developed in the UK during WWII as part of the response to the threat to shipping from German U-Boats. This book describes the ASV radars developed in the UK after WWII (1946-2000) and used by the RAF for long-range maritime surveillance.
Variant and related titles
British ASV radars in WWII 1945-2000.
British air-to-surface vessel radars in WWII 1946-2000.
IOP ebooks.
Other formats
Also available in print.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2019
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
The book will be of interest to the history of technology community, represented by members of IET, IEEE, professional radar engineers, students of radar, the Defence Electronics History Society, museum curators, etc.
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. ASV radars
1.2. RAF Coastal Command and Strike Command
1.3. Research, testing and evaluation
1.4. WWII ASV radars
1.5. Post-war ASV radar and aircraft developments
1.6. Summary of book
2. ASV Mk. 7A
2.1. Introduction
2.2. ASV Mk. 7A equipment
2.3. Radar performance
2.4. Conclusions
3. ASV Mk. 13
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Proving trials of ASV Mk. 13
3.3. ASV Mk. 13 radar parameters
3.4. ASV 13 equipment
3.5. Radar performance on the Warwick aircraft
3.6. Comparative trial with AN/APS-20
3.7. ASV Mk. 13 (ARI 5729) in the Shackleton MR1 and MR2
3.8. Conclusions
4. ASV 21
4.1. Introduction
4.2. ASV 21 radar
4.3. ASV 21 installations
4.4. ASV 21D
4.5. Radar trials
4.6. Modelled radar performance
4.7. Conclusions
5. ASR 846 development
5.1. The replacement for ASV 21D
5.2. Operational requirements
5.3. Potential radar solutions
5.4. Radar research
5.5. The procurement process
5.6. Project definition
5.7. Full development
5.8. EMI development radar
6. Searchwater
6.1. The Searchwater radar on Nimrod MR2
6.2. Radar parameters
6.3. Radar components
6.4. Signal processing
6.5. Radar displays
6.6. Conclusion
7. Comparative performance of ASV 21D and Searchwater
7.1. Radar performance prediction methods
7.2. Comparison of performance between Searchwater and ASV21D
7.3. Noise-limited performance
7.4. Clutter limited performance
7.5. Conclusions
8. Other ASV radars
8.1. Introduction
8.2. ASV Mk. 19
8.3. AN/APS-20
9. Conclusion
9.1. ASV radar evolution
9.2. Searchwater 2000MR.
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Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
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