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PS-02/A is the Swedish designation for the French Thomson-CSF Cyrano radar bought for the J35A Draken in the early 1960s. The radar was connected to a Swedish sight called 6B.

Specifications

The radar had a range of 24 km and targets were normally detected at 24 km. It had one scan mode with 60-degree sweep and one targeting mode with an 8-degree scan pattern. After locking on the system sent targeting data to the onboard weapons system.

References

  1. Tidig flygradar Transkript av ett vittnesseminarium vid Tekniska museet i Stockholm den 15 april 2008 __ Johan Gribbe (red.) (Early Airborne Radars.....Seminar at The Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
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