Type 911

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

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The British Type 911 is a shipboard tracking radar that is part of the GWS Seawolf short-range, surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. It superseded the Type 910.

The Type 911, which is the Royal Navy designation for the Marconi (later BAE Systems) 805SW, has two tracking radars. The I-band radar has a shallow convex cover over the dish; the L/M-band radar, adapted from the Blindfire ground radar, has a vertically mounted dish with a feedhorn offset to the bottom of the reflector....

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