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Old 19th Mar 2012, 00:23
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The one at Locking was the TPS-44 (Cardion Alert Mk 2)

The Westinghouse TPS-43F was put into Regular RAF Service as the Radar Type 99 and was used until the late 1990's when it was then sold to Pakistan. One of the Unit's I served on were the first to use it (RAF Wattisham), though it had been passed on to another unit by the time I got posted on to that unit. However it did deploy to my next unit for a few weeks in the early 1990's and I've had a good look around it while in operation. Horrible purple CRT displays in it though !!!

The Skyguard radars we captured were also used (along with the guns) to form an Auxiliary RAF Regiment squadron at Waddington during the back end of the cold war, though they then disbanded and the radar's went to RAF Spadeadam to be used as threat emitters for EW training of aircrew. It was one of the them that is now used to monitor low flying areas.

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