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    Typhon, first naval AESA radar?

    After reading the JPL paper on the radar, I learned that the prototype radar employed 3700 travelling wave tube amplifiers. Judging from the diagrams in the paper, it looks as if each radiating element had a dedicated amplifier, just like in an AESA radar: This sketch from the Russian...
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    U.S. Navy Typhon Warships

    Having been home ported at Port Hueneme, California since 30 November 1948, Norton Sound stood out to sea in June of 1962 bound for Norfolk, Virginia and ultimately to Baltimore, Maryland. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia and was decommissioned on 10 August 1962, and was later towed to Baltimore...
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