Airborne maritime surveillance radar. Volume 2, British ASV radars in WWII 1946-2000 / Simon Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Simon, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 5.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 5]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radar--Military applications--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Radar.

Airplanes, Military--Radar equipment.

Airplanes, Military.

Radar in aeronautics.

World War, 1939-1945--Radar.

World War, 1939-1945.

Radar--Military applications.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]

Other Title:

British ASV radars in WWII 1945-2000.

British air-to-surface vessel radars in WWII 1946-2000.

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

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.

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.

Notes:

"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 10, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781643270722

9781643270708

OCLC:

1052762370

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