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AN/SSQ-72

Country of Origin: USA

The AN/SSQ-72 is a shipborne, tactical intelligence system designed to detect and identify enemy ships over-the-horizon (OTH) for targeting purposes. The system consists of the SRD-19 direction finding set, the SLR-16 countermeasures receiving set and the OK-324/SYQ system supervisor station. The S SQ-72 employs hull- and mast-mounted antenna arrays.

The record has been archived. There have been reports for many years on service.

Some accounts indicated that the SSQ-72 had...

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