MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 1
DATE: 15 September 1964
ITEM NAME: DISPLAY SET. STATUS
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USAF
TYPE: AN/FPA-21
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER: 5840-976-4312
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIFICATION
STD
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number: Radio Corporation of America
parameters, and to provide a means for manually
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
inserting system status summary reports. The Control
Monitor Group included at Site 3 is to establish and
The AN/FPA-21 is used at BMEWS Site 3. The
control the antenna scan parameters of any combination
purpose of this equipment is to display the status of
of three Tracking Radars; monitor, evaluate, and report
major equipment subsystems, to display the assignment
the presence of electromagnetic disturbances,
of major equipments, to display system modes and
AN/FPA-21: 1