Device that displays blips

Usage examples of radar.

Other officers were standing by radar and radar altimeter, NST transceiver, drift indicator, accelerometer, and all the rest of it.

Their aircraft, milling about north of Chiang Mai, stood out clearly on radar, and his scouts had reported Thai airmobile forces gathering several kilometers to the southeast.

A number of enemy radar tracks converge there, and we believe it may be a helicopter staging area for a airmobile assault, almost certainly.

McGinty: patrolling slowly back and forth across the straits until noon, performing the duties just described, then after lunch anchoring in a quiet little cove on the Shikoku side for the afternoon, watching the strait visually and by radar, and communicating with any passing ships by radio or twenty-four-inch signal light.

Commander Arris heard the clear jangle of the radar net alarm as he was dreaming about a fish.

But Jordan and other engineers at Stanford believed that the device might have a few practical applications and before long it became clear how stunningly correct they were - the audion was the first electronic vacuum tube, and its descendants ultimately made possible radio, television, radar, medical monitors, navigation systems and computers themselves.

The best parts of the new avionics and radar are designed to handle sea-skimmers.

For another thirty minutes the bogies appeared hesitantly and indecisively on radar and then the scopes were clear.

The sun had hardly set on the twenty-sixth of November before the bogies began to appear around the edges of the scopes, many more of them than the radar operators remembered having seen before.

D-Day minus 3, and flight operations began with a launch of twelve Reapers led by Bud Schumann, in the full dark at quarter past four, while the last bogies were still fading from the force radars.

Cummins could not ignore the internal radar, that intuition which he and Kehoe, who was a Kilkenny bogman, along with other police had.

When the Kate was blazing on the surface, the second TBF, holding both Colgan and the circler on his radar, gave him a heading back to the first where the flight rejoined and continued home, having moved not one mile off its intended track.

It was no longer visible, not just because of the jettisoning of the rocket motor but because it was cruising below the radar grass, maybe only forty feet above the water.

The idea was to build a satellite capable of detailing the exact locations and technical parameters of every Soviet air defense radar system.

In the South China Sea at 0338 February 19, Dykers made a radar contact on an enemy convoy of five tankers and three escorts.