Airborne Maritime Surveillance Radar

Volume 2, Post-war British ASV Radars 1946-2000

Simon Watts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

133 Seiten

2018
Morgan & Claypool Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-64327-069-2 (ISBN)

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Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars are installed on maritime reconnaissance aircraft for long-range detection, tracking and classification of surface ships and for hunting submarines. Such radars were first developed in the UK during WWII. This book describes the ASV radars developed during WWII for long-range maritime surveillance.

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 - Air to 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.

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 was deputy Scientific Director and Technical Fellow in Thales UK until 2013 and is a Visiting Professor in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. He joined Thales (then EMI Electronics) in 1967 and worked on a wide range of radar and EW projects, with a particular research interest in maritime radar and sea clutter. He is author and co-author of over 80 journal and conference papers, a book on sea clutter and several patents. He was appointed MBE in 1996 for services to the UK defence industry and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the IMA and Fellow of the IEEE.

Preface
A note on units
Acknowledgements
Author biography
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. ASV Mk. 7A
3. ASV Mk. 13
4. ASV 21
5. ASV 846 development
6. Searchwater
7. Comparative performance of ASV 21D and Searchwater
8. Other ASV Radars
9. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	IOP Concise Physics
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	525 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
ISBN-10	1-64327-069-9 / 1643270699
ISBN-13	978-1-64327-069-2 / 9781643270692
Zustand	Neuware