RX12874, also known as the Passive Detection System (PDS) and by its nickname "Winkle", was a radar detector system used as part of the Royal Air Force's...
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Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector Winkle Brig, a type of sailing boat built between 1985 and...
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techniques. A well developed instance of this was deployed by the RAF in their RX12874 network, which could track jammer-carrying aircraft with accuracy equal...
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85 radar's performance dropped off. It operated beside the Type 85 and RX12874 in Linesman, and moved to the UKADGE system in the 1980s before being replaced...
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radar used in the BMEWS network, and the High Speed Aerial of the UK's RX12874 Passive Detection System. The concept fell from use with the increasing...
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One of the largest and most complex passive radar systems was the UK's RX12874, or "Winkle". Winkle was deployed in the 1960s in response to the introduction...
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of 1958, it had been decided that Blue Yeoman would be part of this new RX12874 system as well. When the prototype system at the RRE South Site became...
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the right of the rear cockpit (facing the rear). List of Rainbow Codes RX12874 or 'Winkle', a passive-detection system intended to counteract carcinotron...
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Computer for Active Control". www.archive.org. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "RX12874 Passive Detection ECCM system". www.radarpages.co.uk. Retrieved 6 April...
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5 GHz, 54 MW – a.k.a. Blue Yeoman, Linesman – AEI, later Marconi. q.v. RX12874 a.k.a. Winkle AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for...
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