Busto963 wrote:
Why is the Kidd class search air-search radar suite reversed?
Almost every USN ship with the AN/SPS-48 and AN/SPS-49 mounts the AN/SPS-48 as high as possible and forward, with the AN/SPS-49 lower and aft - but the Kidds do not follow this.
Just curious why.
It was a mast and superstructure thing. The forward Mast was not in a position to handle the size of the SPS-48. The 48 was always to be mounted on the aft Mast. The original configuration caused detection problems (radar lobes) so they redesigned the aft Mast mounting the 48 high and mostly unobscured.
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