Airborne Radiac Evaluation,

Abstract

The Navy and the Air Force have developed airborne radiac equipment to detect the presence of a cloud resulting from an atomic explosion and to indicate its bearing with respect to an observing aircraft. The equipment was intended to detect an atomic cloud at sufficient range for an approaching aircraft to take evasive action. Both the Navy AN/ADR-3 and the Air Force Type D-1 equipment were found to be inadequate for this purpose against the comparatively low yield shots of Operation BUSTER. Recent information indicates that an atomic cloud need not be considered a critical hazard to aircraft on atomic bombing mission. Accordingly, and in view of their limitations, further development of the two types of cloud tracking equipment is not recommended. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 1952
Accession Number
ADA077497

Entities

People

  • Gene D. Robertson
  • John H. Terry

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Gamma Rays
  • Hazards
  • Munitions
  • New York
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Radiation
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warning Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.