AN/SPS-48
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thumb|AN/SPS-48E aboard The AN/SPS-48 is a US naval electronically scanned array air search 3D radar system manufactured by L3Harris Technologies and deployed in the 1960s as the primary air search sensor for anti-aircraft warships. The deployment of the AN/SPY-1 and the end of the Cold War led to the decommissioning of many such ships, and many of these vessel's AN/SPS-48 sets were reused on aircraft carriers and amphibious ships where it is used to direct targets for air defense systems such as the Sea Sparrow and RIM-116 SAM missiles. Existing sets are being modernized under the ROAR progr
Key facts
- Radar.name
- AN/SPS-48
- Radar.image
- Radar antennas on USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71.jpg
- Radar.caption
- AN/SPS-48E large square radar antennaaboard .
- Radar.country
- United States
- Radar.manufacturer
- L3Harris Technologies
- Radar.RPM
- 7.5 or 15 rpm
- Radar.type
- 3D air-search
- Radar.frequency
- S-band
- Radar.diameter
- by
- Radar.azimuth
- 0-360°
- Radar.elevation
- 0-65°
- Radar.precision
- elevation1/6° azimuth
- Radar.power
- 35 kW average
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- Operation
- History
- Uses
- Variants
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|AN/SPS-48E aboard The AN/SPS-48 is a US naval electronically scanned array air search 3D radar system manufactured by L3Harris Technologies and deployed in the 1960s as the primary air search sensor for anti-aircraft warships. The deployment of the AN/SPY-1 and the end of the Cold War led to the decommissioning of many such ships, and many of these vessel's AN/SPS-48 sets were reused on aircraft carriers and amphibious ships where it is used to direct targets for air defense systems such as the Sea Sparrow and RIM-116 SAM missiles. Existing sets are being modernized under the ROAR program to AN/SPS-48G standard for better reliability and usability.
In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the "AN/SPS-48" designation represents the 48th design of an Army-Navy electronic device for surface ship search radar system. The JETDS system also now is used to name all Department of Defense electronic systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AN/SPS-48” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.