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Old 27-05-2012, 14:45
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A somewhat unusual request but one I hope someone can help me with.

I am looking for information on two old Soviet naval radars from immediately after World War 2. They are:

Redan-2, (NATO ASCC - SWORDFISH) a surface target fire control radar found mostly on the FOUR EYES director control tower (the russians called it the KDP2-4) of the Project 30K and early Project 30-bis (SKORYY) class destroyers.

Vympel-2, (NATO ASCC - FIRE IRON), an anti-aircraft fire control radar found on the CYLINDER HEAD (SVP-29RLM) director also used on these ships.

I have Friedman's book on Naval Radar and Conways' All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1947-1995 and I have seen the Navweaps.com site on Russian Naval Radars in WW2.

What I am looking for is information on frequency, wavelength, accuracy and resolution and whether or not they were capable of blind fire (e.g did they have beam or lobe switching to increase bearing accuracy and so on). I have pictures of both these radars and I can make some guesses on these but I am hoping someone has something more definitive.

If you have a listing for sources for this information, please let me know that as well.

Thanks in advance
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Old 27-05-2012, 17:24
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A somewhat unusual request but one I hope someone can help me with.

I am looking for information on two old Soviet naval radars from immediately after World War 2. They are:

Redan-2, (NATO ASCC - SWORDFISH) a surface target fire control radar found mostly on the FOUR EYES director control tower (the russians called it the KDP2-4) of the Project 30K and early Project 30-bis (SKORYY) class destroyers.

Vympel-2, (NATO ASCC - FIRE IRON), an anti-aircraft fire control radar found on the CYLINDER HEAD (SVP-29RLM) director also used on these ships.

I have Friedman's book on Naval Radar and Conways' All The Worlds Fighting Ships 1947-1995 and I have seen the Navweaps.com site on Russian Naval Radars in WW2.

What I am looking for is information on frequency, wavelength, accuracy and resolution and whether or not they were capable of blind fire (e.g did they have beam or lobe switching to increase bearing accuracy and so on). I have pictures of both these radars and I can make some guesses on these but I am hoping someone has something more definitive.

If you have a listing for sources for this information, please let me know that as well.

Thanks in advance
I have noted in a blog/forum today reference made to the book entitled A radar history of World War II: technical and military imperatives, which I have not read so don't know if it will be of any assistance.

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Old 27-05-2012, 20:02
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I have noted in a blog/forum today reference made to the book entitled A radar history of World War II: technical and military imperatives, which I have not read so don't know if it will be of any assistance.

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Louis Brown is the author of that book and I have read it. Thanks for that suggestion. I wasn't looking for these specific pieces of information when I read it so I shall check it out again.

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Old 12-06-2012, 23:00
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Louis Brown is the author of that book and I have read it. Thanks for that suggestion. I wasn't looking for these specific pieces of information when I read it so I shall check it out again.
Got the book again via inter-library loan. With regret, it has no information on the two radars in question.

Still looking, I guess. Any information on the radars or possible sources other than the ones already consulted, (listed previously) is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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