PBS American Experience: The Secret of Tuxedo Park

[David Morris]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-584_radar

The *SCR-584* (short for *Set, Complete, Radio
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_Radio> # 584*) was an
automatic-tracking microwave <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave> radar
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar>developed by the MIT Radiation
Laboratory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory>
during World
War II <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>. It was one of the most
advanced ground-based radars of its era, and became one of the primary gun
laying radars <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laying_radar> used
worldwide well into the 1950s.

The radar was intended to be introduced in late 1943, but various delays
meant the SCR-584 did not reach field units until early 1944. Many were
rushed to England where they were an invaluable part of the defences
developed to counter the V1 flying bomb
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V1_flying_bomb>. By the end of the war they
had been used to track artillery shells in flight, detect vehicles, and
dramatically reduce the manpower needed to guide anti-aircraft guns.


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On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you could shoot down a V-2 with a radar-controlled gun, that would be
> pretty cool. Even if V-1s, I can't believe that the technology really
> neutralized the threat, because they'd have had to deploy guns all along
> the southern coast of England to prevent any buzz-bombs from flying over.
>
> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Mistaken, at any rate.
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2018 3:37 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The show said V-2s.  Fake show?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:13 PM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> V-1 attacks; nobody was shooting down V-2s.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The story of a Wall Street tycoon who lead the development of
>>>>> microwave radar automatic anti-aircrraft guns that nuetralized the V-2
>>>>> attacks from France.  And that was just the start.
>>>>>
>>>>> David Morris
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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