The SCR-584 (short for Set, Complete, Radio # 584) was an automatic-tracking microwave radar developed by the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War...
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much smaller and more accurate SCR-584 microwave-based system. The Signal Corps had been experimenting with some radar concepts as early as the late 1920s...
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or auto-follow. Its first operational use was in the US ground-based SCR-584 radar, which demonstrated the ability to easily track almost any airborne...
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anti-aircraft weapons against enemy aircraft. When cued by the SCR-584 centimetric gun-laying radar and used in concert with anti-aircraft guns firing shells...
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warning radar SCR-658 Weather balloon tracking radar SCR-584 Fire-control radar SCR-784 Fire-control radar AN/TSQ-81 Bomb Directing Central (transportable...
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Signal Corps Radio (section SCR radio sets)
the SCR-299 and large microwave radar systems such as the SCR-584 radar. The SCS designator was applied to groups of SCR-numbered sets comprising an extensive...
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engineers at NAS Point Magu and switching the radar to an SCR-784 (amphibious, trailer-mounted version of the SCR-584) had it ready for operational testing....
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fruits of the Tizard Mission came back to Britain in the form of the SCR-584 radar set and the proximity fuze, which were used to help defeat the V-1 flying...
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Lee Davenport (category Radar pioneers)
World War II, responsible for the development and deployment of the SCR-584 radar system. Lee Losee Davenport was born on December 31, 1915, in Schenectady...
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gun (94 mm) and two radar units, preferably the US SCR-584 with M9 director as it was more accurate than the British system. The radar was effective from...
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