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[Dilandu]

Tzoli and Dilandu excellent images. I wish I could produce CGI images to your standards. The last time I tried it looked like a three year old using crayons. Could I ask what software you use.

Er, this is not my image. I didn't make it, I just posted it.

 

[Tzoli]

This is how my SPQ-5 looks like:



And my SPG-55:


I use Paint Tool SAI for my ship drawings

 

[Tzoli]

Does anybody know if any side and top drawings exists for the WW2 era US SG radars?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

For Talos, this is the most detailed stuff on the fire control, guidance, and radar system on the net.

Talos Missile Guidance and Homing History

SPW-2 Description

SPG-49 Tracking Radar

Talos Mk 77 Missile Fire Control System

Weapons Control

 

[Tzoli]

From:

Pics of ground mount dual pompoms, 1940...? - Axis History Forum

https://forum.axishistory.com/download/file.php?id=217584&sid=0897a9e1be56fb835c3044b89a8154b0

There seems to be twin 40mm Mark VIII 2-pdr Pom-pom mountings were produced prior and early WW2, though these were land mountings.
Does anybody have more photos? (Or even drawings??? )
I wonder why not it was mounted on ships or why not use a simpler twin mounting essentially a half quad with the upper pairs removed?
Some British cruiser export designs were offered with twin Pom-Poms in the 1930's. Maybe somebody knows more?

 

[Grey Havoc]

There was something of a shortage of those guns, I believe.

 

[Winchester]

Hello Guys!
Some of you might know me through my drawings of warships ( I draw mostly WW2 or WW1 but occasionally Cold war ones as well) and I wish to ask for your help!

I could use information about what kind of guidance radars are required for these missile systems:

RIM-2 Terrier
RIM-8 Talos
RGM-15 Regulus II
RIM-24 Tartar
UGM/RGM-27 Polaris I (RGM I assume for the surface ship launched version envisioned for a few projects)
RIM-50 Typhon MR and LR

If possible in chronological order as I know multiple radars were used during the lifetime of a missile system.
Drawings especially top-down ones would be the best both for Radars and for the launcher systems for these various missiles if anybody have them.

RIM-2 Terrier:

AN/SPQ-5 (Boston, Providence, early Farragut conversions);
AN/SPG-55 (Farragut, Long Beach, Kitty Hawk, Belknap, Leahy, Bainbridge, Truxtun).
Mk 25 Mod 7 (Gyatt).

Boston, Providence and Gyatt were *only* capable of using the wing-controlled RIM-2A and RIM-2B; remainder could take any Terrier-family missile up through SM-1ER, and most were given NTU and could take SM-2ER. Those Farraguts originally fitted with SPQ-5 were later refitted with SPG-55; this was never done to the Boston and Providence-class cruisers.

RIM-8 Talos:

AN/SPG-49 + AN/SPW-2 (all ships)

At least two fire control radar replacement efforts were started and abandoned; AN/SPG-56, and AN/SPG-51E. Neither were adopted.

RGM-15 Regulus II:

Ship's Inertial Navigation System (SINS). Regulus and Regulus II were targeted through inertial navigation only.

RIM-24 Tartar:

AN/SPG-51 (all ships); supplemented by AN/SPG-60.

UGM-27 Polaris:

Ship's Inertial Navigation System (SINS), XN6 Autonavigator, Transit/NAVSAT satellite navigation, AN/UYK-1.

RIM-50 Typhon MR/RIM-55 Typhon LR:

AN/SPG-59

Air search radars varied dramatically, sometimes within classes. Common ones include SPS-29, SPS-43, SPS-48 and SPS-49, most of which were used for all of the Terrier/Tartar/Talos family at some point or other.

 

[Tzoli]

Since then I've found/draw all the radars for these missile systems and I would like to add the SPQ-2 director radar for the Regulus 1-2 missiles used on the Baltimores which carried this weapon and envisioned for the Long Beach early version and which is essentially a modified late/post WW2 SP radar.

There was also an early Talos illuminator radar without designation and from the sktech drawings, it looks like an enlarged SPG-51.

But thank you still