MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 1
DATE: 1 July 1964
ITEM NAME: RADAR SET
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USA
TYPE: AN/MPQ-29
LINE ITEM NUMBER: 634442
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER:
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIFICATION
S td-A
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number: Sperry Utah Engineering Lab., Salt Lake City, Utah
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
RELATION TO SIMILAR EQUIPMENT
None.
Radar Set AN/MPQ-29 employs an integrated group
of components on a single, highly mobile trailer mount.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
The system is designed to track and plot the course of
an airborne target within a range of 92 km. In automatic-
Frequency: 8500 to 9600 mc
tracking mode, the radar supplies data to a computer
Range, Max: 92 km
and two plotting boards. Servo-operated pencils on the
Range, Min: 300m
boards plot the course of the target. The system may be
Peak Power Output: 40 kw
employed in conventional radar (skin) tracking
Operating Voltage and Power Requirements:
operation, or it may be used in conjunction with a
115 vac, 60 cps, 3-ph, (3 kw without heaters,
beacon transponder placed in the target for beacon
6 kw with heaters)
tracking. An optical target selector is supplied for
Type of Presentation: PPI and J-scopes
auxiliary observation and selection of targets by a
Duty Cycle: 0.00035 (approx)
remote operator.
AN/MPQ-29: 1
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