Michael, Good points both. One other potential culprit MIGHT have been the antenna sweep of the FC system. I have not read anything about this in any detail,...
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Hi guys, Did the San Juan have surface search capability? I know she was an ATLANTA class AA cruiser so she had air search radars but could she also do surface...
Gasp!!! You left out the Austrians? grin On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:18:28 -0700 "James Kyler" <pzkpfw111g@...> ... From: Ix To: GenQuarters@yahoogroups.com...
Yeah...well we try not to interfere when them foreigners brawl among each
other. :-))) Mal. Wright. ... From: Francis Reed Date: 06/02/05 10:03:07 To:...
Hi, With the recent announcement of the contract for 3 new air defence (Aegis?) destroyers going to South Australia, there was spirited debate on the 'Your...
Hi Gav, no budget is limitless......and you don't want to have 1 billion dollars circling perpetually in the water. So there is the question of supposed...
Hi, With the recent announcement of the contract for 3 new air defence (Aegis?) destroyers going to South Australia, there was spirited debate on the 'Your...
Hi Gav, no budget is limitless......and you don't want to have 1 billion dollars circling perpetually in the water. So there is the question of supposed...
To see the Navys thinking on what the DDGs are intended for: http://www.defence.gov.au/dmo/msd/sea4000/sea4000.cfm Scroll down to 6/08/2004 and download the...
There actually were Central Powers plans for naval cooperation in the Med. The Austrians were supposed to base forward at Taranto, and the Italians were...
Per Kilpatrick's book, NAVAL NIGHT BATTLES IN THE SOLOMONS, USS SAN JUAN was equipped with the new SG radar. Byron Byron Angel Trident International, Inc. ...
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I think it goes highly unsaid that these DDGs may also be ABM platforms also. Folks on the ground will always bitterly complain about having such devices in ...
Was it on this egroup that someone mentioned they were setting up an egroup that specifically dealt with the War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie? If so what's it...
... Only because I'm not done painting them. :-) I have the entire Austrian fleet half-done (painted but unbased), and a whole load of various WWI English...
... dollars ... built ? ... to mount ... Antarctic ... they would ... 6 Billion is the figure being thrown around, IIRC. But that is in Australian pesos... ;)...
Loxton (The Shame of Savo) gives Blue radar that (according to the CO of DesRon 4) could detect large ships at a range of 6 miles. This suggests that it was...
... that ... d'oh! Well, obviously I didn't mean "closer than Indonesia"... :) HA! but it is closer (or at least less obscured by other nations) to Aus than...
Actually you CAN get a good Windows caliper and map from the shareware program called DX Atlas. It's one of those shareware programs that wants a registration...
Thats a good tip re the shareware, thanks :) OK then, flying crows aside... there's still a lot of clutter between Aus and China, but there seems to be a large...
... Yep, sometimes I just have fun after switching to a round globe and spinning it the wrong way with my mouse pointer. 8^) -- BT NNNN Tracy Johnson Justin...
Leonard, I'm about 99 & 44/100 pct sure that both BLUE and RALPH TALBOT had the earlier SC radar. My comment about the method of SC antenna sweep had to do...
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... Byron, Many thanks. That's all I needed. I'll let you know how it turns out. Tom Bryant...
... I think the early US air search radars - by that I mean both SC and SK - had a fairly slow scan rate - possibly 10-12 seconds for a 360 degree sweep. ... ...
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