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The Type 285 radar was a British naval anti-aircraft gunnery radar developed during the Second World War. The prototype was tested at sea aboard the escort destroyer HMS Southdown in August 1940.

Notes

1. Campbell, p. 16

Bibliography

• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-459-2.
• Friedman, Norman (1981). Naval Radar. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-238-2.
• Watson, Raymond C. Jr. (2009). Radar Origins Worldwide: History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II. Trafford. ISBN 978-1-4269-2111-7.

External links

• The RN Radar and Communications Museum

• World War II British electronics
• Naval radars
• Royal Navy Radar
• World War II radars
• Military equipment introduced from 1940 to 1944