[ARC5] Aircraft B-18A Bolo

[J. Forster]

The MASSACHUSETTS has a good part of several RADARs working, the
indicators, repeaters, etc. Sadly somebody cut big chunks out of the
waveguides for scrap sometime in the past, so the transmitters have not
been powered.

-John

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> Early British aircraft used the 176 Mc ASV Mk II radar until the Germans
> developed the Metox receiver which detected the signal from the airborne
> radar thus allowing the sub to dive and escape detection. The radar was
> changed to the centimetric ASV Mk III followed by the ASV Mk IIIA.
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> Very late war aircraft used the 9cm ASV Mark VI C.
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> Incidentally, the WW-II submarine Cobia in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has what
> is
> believed to be the world's oldest operating (and licensed) radar.  It is a
> centimetric SJ.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor at quikus.com]
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>> B-24s and Short Sunderlands were fitted with ASW radar starting with
> meter wavelengths
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> The ASB- series??
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> -John
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