MAY BELL Technical Workshop of 18-22 May 1970, Held at Raytheon Company Spencer Laboratory, Burlington, Massachusetts

Abstract

Project MAY BELL is directed towards ocean surveillance and tactical early warning and is investigating feasibility of detecting and tracking aircraft, missiles, ships and submarines at over-the-horizon distances using HF monostatic and bistatic radar. In support of these concepts various theoretical predictions, propagation measurements, cross-section studies and feasibility detection demonstrations have been made. The program emphasis during the past eighteen months has been specifically directed towards determining the attenuation and clutter propagation aspects that apply to the concepts that use the surface wave; and investigating the basic feasibility of detecting and tracking aircraft using Mode III, Fleet Air Defense (FAD), and Mode IV(a) and (b), Buoy Tactical Early Warning (B-TEW).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 29, 1970
Accession Number
AD0514939

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Aircrafts
  • Communication Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Measurement
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radar
  • Radar Equipment
  • Radio Waves
  • Repetition Rate
  • Scattering
  • Transmitters
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Missile Defense Systems.