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Cake** Series

Country of Origin: Russia

The Cake** series of ground-based height-finding radars have large, peel-shaped nodding antennas with horizontal beam widths of 3 to 5 degrees and vertical beam widths of 1 to 5 degrees. The antenna "nods" mechanically at the rate of 30-40 cycles per minute. Patty Cake has back-to-back elliptical p arabolic antennas; Rock Cake is transportable; while Sponge Cake and Stone Cake are trailer-mounted. Sponge Cake has a range of approximately 300 km, with typical accuracy of 3 km and...

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