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    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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    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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    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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    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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    War II-era SCR-584 and GL Mk. III radars it replaced; the Blue Cedar weighed about 5 short tons, compared to about double that for the SCR-584. It was normally...
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    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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    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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    The SCR-784 was a radar set used by the U.S. Army designed to be an amphibious version of the SCR-584, to control the fire of anti-aircraft batteries...
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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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