MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 3
DATE: 1 September 1964
ITEM NAME: DECODER GROUP
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USN
TYPE: AN/UPA-24A
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER: 2F5840-713-8567
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIFICATION
Std
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number: Telecomputing Corp., Electronic System Div. (91000)
which contains the tracking information, and the IFF-SIF
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
video, which contains the identifying information, are
routed through the components of the Decoder Group
Decoder Group AN/UPA-24A functions with
on their way to the radar indicator. A composite signal
associated radar and radar recognition sets to decode
is then displayed on the indicator, giving course and
and identify pulse-coded IFF-SIF signals received from
position of the target and, also, identifying the target as
the identification equipment in an aircraft or ship which
friend or foe.
is being tracked and identified. Both the radar video,
AN/UPA-24A: 1
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