"Red" vented spleen or mostly mumbled...



I have to agree. Information processing was the really big shortcoming
of the 60 era radar. You can't argue with some of its successes
though. One US cruiser setting off N.Vietnam shot down two MiG from
over 65 miles (105+ km) with RIM-8 Talos SAMS.


.....At one point the big bedscreen SPS-43 was the best of air search
radars. It's tange of detection against Bears at Angels 20 or the
occasional Chromedome could awe the careless viewer (and I suspect was
better than today's shipboard examples).

On the other hand, bury me not with an SPS-8, rarely serviceavble, or
though more servicable, the SPS-30, a hell of a penalty in weight, space
and topside clearview.

TMO