The Flooded Earth

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scr-270 Radar, An/fps-17, List of U.s. Signal Corps Vehicles, Scr-584 Radar, Camp Evans, Scr-268 Radar, Infoage Science/history Learning Center, An/mpq-14, An/tpq-37 Firefinder Radar, An/apg-67, An/mpn, An/tpq-36 Firefinder Radar, An/mpq-64 Sentinel, An/fps-35, An/apq-159, An/apq-13, Scr-658 Radar, An/mpq-49 Forward Area Alerting Radar, An/fps-129, Cobra Dane, Mcdowell Grove Forest Preserve, An/tps-59, K-35 Trailer, An/tps-43, An/fps-117, Eq-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition, K-34 Trailer, K-72 Trailer, Scr-784, An/apq-153, An/tps-75, An/tps-72, An/fps-124, An/gpn-30. Excerpt: The AN/APG-67 is a multi-mode all-digital X band coherent pulse doppler radar originally developed by General Electric for the F-20 Tigershark program of the early 1980s. It offers a variety of air-to-air, air-to-ground, sea-search and mapping modes, and compatibility with all common weapons used by the US Air Force in the 1980s.When the F-20 project ended in the mid-1980s and no other U.S. sales were immediately forthcoming, GE sold off its radar division. It eventually became part of Lockheed Martin , which sells the APG-67 for use on light fighters and trainer aircraft . It has been selected for the AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo of Taiwan, and the Korean A-50 attack variant of the T-50 Golden Eagle , and the latest versions of the FMA IA 63 Pampa , which are built by Lockheed Martin. Description The APG-67 is a modern radar featuring a planar phased array antenna and simplified electronics housed in three line-replaceable units , one of these being the radar "dish" itself. The entire system weighs less than 160 lb and takes up less than 1.9 cubic feet. All communications with the cockpit is handled using the MIL-STD-1553 data bus; the data bus allows the data from any of the aircraft's sensors to be shown on a...