The SCR-784 was a
radar
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set used by the
U.S. Army designed to be an amphibious version of the
SCR-584, to control the
fire
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of
anti-aircraft
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batteries
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, and mounted on a searchlight trailer called a K-84. The set was used to guide the flare plane over the target.
Statistics
Frequency: 2,800 MHz
Pulse Width: 0.8 µs
Pulse Repetition Rate: 1707 pps
Vertical Coverage:
Indicator Type: display 7 inch PPI and, two 3 inch CRT's for range determination
K-84 trailer
* built by
Fruehauf Trailer Corporation
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* Gross Weight is .
* Tires are 9.00 X 20. 10 Ply.
* Electric brakes, and parking brake.
* Overall length 220-3/8"
* Overall width 97-3/4"
Surviving examples
There are no known surviving examples of this array.
See also
*
List of U.S. Signal Corps Vehicles
*
Signal Corps Radio
Signal Corps Radios were U.S. Army military communications components that comprised "sets". Under the Army Nomenclature System, the abbreviation SCR initially designated "Set, Complete Radio", but was later misinterpreted as "Signal Corps Radio." ...
*
G-numbers
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References
Further reading
TM 9-2800 Military Vehicles, October 1947* TM 11-1354
* TM 11-1454
* TM 11-1554
* TM 9-873
* SNL G-714
External links
''mobileradar.org''.
* http://www.campevans.org/_CE/html/smpr83p25.html report on scr-784
* https://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=ac8728dc4f57ea22&q=mobile+radar+source:life&usg=__bIHfrqpGapgmikx-GCl7ANOKLKw=&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmobile%2Bradar%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den
* http://sill-www.army.mil/famag/1948/NOV_DEC_1948/NOV_DEC_1948_COVER_TOC.pdf
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Military radars of the United States
Gun laying radars
World War II radars
World War II American electronics
Analog computers
SCR784
Fruehauf Trailer Corporation
Military equipment introduced from 1945 to 1949