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- AI_Mk._IV_radar abstract "Airborne Interception radar, Mark IV, or AI Mk. IV for short, was the operational model of the world's first air-to-air radar system. Early Mk. III units appeared in July 1940 on converted Bristol Blenheim light bombers, while the definitive Mk. IV reached widespread availability on the Bristol Beaufighter heavy fighter by early 1941. On the Beaufighter, the Mk. IV arguably played a role in ending The Blitz, the Luftwaffe's night bombing campaign of late 1940 and early 1941.Early development was prompted by a 1936 memo of Henry Tizard on the topic of night fighting. The memo was sent to Robert Watt, director of the radar research efforts, who agreed to allow physicist Edward George "Taffy" Bowen to form a team to study the problem of air interception. The team had a test bed system in flights later that year, but progress was delayed for four years by emergency relocations, three abandoned production designs, and Bowen's increasingly adversarial relationship with Watt's replacement, Albert Percival Rowe. Ultimately, Bowen was forced from the team just as the system was finally maturing.The Mk. IV series operated at a frequency of about 193 megahertz (MHz) with a wavelength of 1.5 meters, and offered detection ranges against large aircraft up to 20,000 feet (6.1 km). Considerable skill was required of the radar operator to interpret the displays of its two cathode ray tubes (CRTs) for the pilot. It had numerous operational limitations, including a maximum range that decreased with the aircraft's altitude and a minimum range that was barely close enough to allow the pilot to see the target. It was only with the increasing proficiency of the crews, along with the installation of new ground-based radar systems dedicated to the interception task, that interception rates began to increase. These roughly doubled every month through the spring of 1941, during the height of The Blitz.The Mk. IV was used in the front lines for only a short period. The introduction of the cavity magnetron in 1940 led to rapid progress in microwave-frequency radars, which offered far greater accuracy and were effective at low altitudes. The prototype Mk. VII began to replace the Mk. IV at the end of 1941, and the AI Mk. VIII largely relegated the Mk. IV to second-line duties by 1943. The basic electronics design, originally a television receiver, was used as the basis of the ASV Mk. II radar, Chain Home Low, AMES Type 7 and many other radar systems throughout the war.".
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- AI_Mk._IV_radar beamwidth "~175 degrees".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar caption "Group Captain "Paddy" Green achieved most of his 11 confirmed kills in this Mk. IV-equipped Beaufighter".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar country "UK".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar frequency "193.0".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar name "AI Mk. IV".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar otherNames "AIR 5003, SCR-540".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar power "10.0".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar precision "5".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar prf "750".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar pulsewidth "2.8".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar type "Airborne interception".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar subject Category:Aircraft_radars.
- AI_Mk._IV_radar subject Category:Military_radars_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- AI_Mk._IV_radar subject Category:World_War_II_British_electronics.
- AI_Mk._IV_radar subject Category:World_War_II_radars.
- AI_Mk._IV_radar comment "Airborne Interception radar, Mark IV, or AI Mk. IV for short, was the operational model of the world's first air-to-air radar system. Early Mk. III units appeared in July 1940 on converted Bristol Blenheim light bombers, while the definitive Mk. IV reached widespread availability on the Bristol Beaufighter heavy fighter by early 1941. On the Beaufighter, the Mk.".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar label "AI Mk. IV radar".
- AI_Mk._IV_radar label "Radar AI Mk. IV".
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- AI_Mk._IV_radar depiction Royal_Air_Force_Radar,_1939-1945_CH15214.jpg.
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