FPS-20

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FPS-20 Long Range Search Radar Set - A Long Range Search Radar set built by Bendix Corporation. Deployed in the late 1950s and 1960 to SAGE System radar sites.

Kamloops AFS FPS-20 Search Radar Antenna, now in a City Park.
Kamloops AFS FPS-20 Search Radar Antenna, now in a City Park.

FPS-20 Search Radar

FPS-20 Search Radar
Element Value Notes
Nomenclature FPS-20
Origins FPS-3
Variants FPS-20A
FPS-20B
Manufacturer Bendix Corporation
Type Search
Number Made 200+
IEEE Band L
Frequency 1250-1350 MHz
PRF 360
Pulse Width 2 us
Rotation Speed
Power Klystron
Range 220 nmi Long Range
Altitude 65k
Introduced 1956
File:AN-FPS-20 Radar.jpg
FPS-20 on Temperate Tower


See Also:

Sources:

  • Winkler, David F., Searching the Skies: the Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, USAF Hq Air Combat Command, 1997, 192 pages, Pdf
  • MIL-HDBK-162A, 15 Dec 1965.

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