Originally Posted by
Downwind.Maddl-Land
If it's the AD radar I'm thinking it is, it was a (Westinghouse?) TPS-43 (retrieved from failing memory!). It's unserviceablity - if ever it was - was extremely short lived as it was fully operational and part of FIADGE from August 1982, if not before.
I was part of the team that relocated a TPS 43 and a 44? from Stanley to Canopus Hill overlooking the airfield. One had some damage which I was told was a result of a Black Buck mission . I believe both of them ended up back in the UK.