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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105852

XAF Radar
(Transmitter and Receiver)

Which was installed on USS New York (BB-34) by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in late 1938.
While mounted on that ship, this experimental 200 megacycle radar was tested at sea during the first months of 1939.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 7 June 2008