Excellent link there ORAC, I’ve worked on a good wedge of the land based radars and display systems listed on the AD side. There are a few errors, like GL-161 in the 1980’s. GL-161 (aka Tinsmith) was operational with the RAF from the mid 1960s onwards with 1 ACC’s TPS-34 at Wattisham and was also installed at RAF Westen Hills in Malaysia around the same period. It was later installed at Cape Gata on Cyprus and also became the basis of the SLEWC at Neatishead in the early 1970's, using the same Elliot 920C computers (If memory serves, it also went in to Buchan, while Boulmer got something else that did the same thing). Project Konrad was for the German’s not the RAF and it most likely didn’t become operational until the Transistorized Radar Displays were in production which according to that page was in 1961. Thus The Type 82 would have been the first RAF radar with a synthetic labelled display (though the T82 data handling system was totally analogue). GL-161 was designed for deployable and overseas use as the planned system for UK use in the 1960's was to have been Linesman, which of course never became fully operational.
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