Airborne Maritime Surveillance Radar: Volume 2, Post-war British ASV Radars 1946-2000 / Edition 1

by Simon Watts

Overview

Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, or more generally maritime surveillance radars, are installed on maritime reconnaissance aircraft for long-range detection, tracking and classification of surface ships (ASuW - Air to Surface Warfare) and for hunting submarines (ASW - anti-submarine warfare). Such radars were first developed in the UK during WWII as part of the response to the threat to shipping from German U-Boats. This book describes the ASV radars developed in the UK after WWII (1946-2000) and used by the RAF for long-range maritime surveillance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643270739
Publisher:	Morgan and Claypool Publishers
Publication date:	08/14/2018
Series:	Iop Concise Physics
Pages:	133
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Simon Watts graduated from the University of Oxford in 1971, obtained an MSc and DSc from the University of Birmingham in 1972 and 2013, respectively, and a PhD from the CNAA in 1987. He was deputy Scientific Director and Technical Fellow in Thales UK until 2013 and is a Visiting Professor in the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. He joined Thales (then EMI Electronics) in 1967 and worked on a wide range of radar and EW projects, with a particular research interest in maritime radar and sea clutter. He is author and co-author of over 80 journal and conference papers, a book on sea clutter and several patents. He was appointed MBE in 1996 for services to the UK defence industry and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the IMA and Fellow of the IEEE.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents: Preface / A note on units / Acknowledgements / Author biography / List of abbreviations / 1. Introduction / 2. ASV Mk. 7A / 3. ASV Mk. 13 / 4. ASV 21 / 5. ASV 846 development / 6. Searchwater / 7. Comparative performance of ASV 21D and Searchwater / 8. Other ASV Radars / 9. Conclusion