AN/SPS-3

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History

the AN/SPS-3 was a short range X-band 3-D air search radar for use on destroyers and larger vessels. It was a hemispherical search radar using two rapid scanning pencil type antenna beams. One pre-production prototype (XN-1) was installed on USS Northampton in 1954. Soon after the SPS-3 program was cancelled.

Used on

  • CLC-1 Northampton

Affiliated systems

Part description

The part has only the sideview drawn in dark grey and normal grey.

See also