To: 411A
Have not flown military aircraft so cannot comment about the sets used in these machines.
I passed this tidbit on to John T having forgotten to include it in my post above:
I used to work with an engineer that spent some time in the USAF as an electronics technician in England working on McDonnell F-4s. He told me that when they worked on the RADAR on the F-4 they would switch it over from wide beam to a pencil beam, which was highly concentrated. In this mode the RADAR could be steered and in doing so they would paint the buildings at the far end of the runway. The concentrated energy would play hell on the fluorescent tubes in the offices to the point that some would burst. No telling what it was doing to the personnel in the office as the material in the tubes is poison and then there is the radiated energy..
