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Old July 2nd 03, 09:31 PM
William Donzelli
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Dave Holford wrote in message ...

IIRC the APS-20 was about 2.4 MW Peak Pulse Power.
Might have been ERP, but I don't think so.


Maybe the last of the line, but the "classic" AN/APS-20 is 1 MW. I
don't have data on the -G version, and it very well could have
received a new transmitter and modulator.

Antenna rotation speed effects beam dwell time on target, and thus power
delivered to the target. Obviously in the extreme only one pulse would
hit the target before the beam moved on and thus probability of
detection would be minimized.


That is true, but as far as the power supplies are concerned, they
just see more juice going to the antenna drive.

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