The Type 293 radar was designed as a short-range aerial-
search radar This is a list of different types of radar.
Detection and search radars
Search radars scan great volumes of space with pulses of short radio waves. They typically scan the volume two to four times a minute. The waves are usually less than a meter ...
for surface ships in 1945. It used the same transmitter as the
Type 277 surface-search radar, but used a new antenna design intended to cover the area above the ship to provide air warning instead of surface search. The stabilised "cheese" antenna, diameter in the AUR antenna, was upgraded to in Type 293P and to in the postwar Type 293Q.
[Friedman, p. 197]
Specifications
Notes
Bibliography
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*{{cite book, last=Watson, first=Raymond C. Jr., title=Radar Origins Worldwide: History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II, publisher=Trafford, year=2009, isbn=978-1-4269-2111-7
External links
The RN Radar and Communications Museum
World War II British electronics
Naval radars
Royal Navy Radar
World War II radars