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AN/FPS-6
Country of Origin: USA
description
The AN/FPS-6 is a nodding height-finding radar that has been subsequently improved to form the AN/FPS-89 and, in mobile form, the AN/MPS-14 radar systems (see separate database entries). As the FPS-6, it is not a mobile system, but is installed in two possible tower configurations, varying with the site's climatic zone (Arctic or Temperate).
The temperate-weather variant provides no protection for the orange-peel open mesh antenna, which has a strut-braced, centrally...
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