airborne radar

collocation in English

meaningsofairborneandradar

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airborne
adjective
uk
/ˈeə.bɔːn/us
/ˈer.bɔːrn/
in the air, or carried by air or wind or by ...
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radar
noun[U]
uk
/ˈreɪ.dɑːr/us
/ˈreɪ.dɑːr/
a system that uses radio waves to find the position of objects that cannot ...
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(Definition ofairborneandradarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Why was there not adequateairborneradarsurveillance?
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Until all this information can be incorporated in a tube,airborneradaris of relatively small value.
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Then there are striking developments in radar,airborneradar, and so on.
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I refer not only to inertial navigation equipment, but to theairborneradar, the cockpit display equipment, and the electro-optic and laser equipment.
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We had the ground radar andairborneradar.
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Day fighters are useless without ground radar, and bombers are of little use unless they can carry theirairborneradar.
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We were well ahead in radar, which we initiated, and in the miniaturisation of equipment forairborneradar.
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High definitionairborneradarcan pick up, identify and track moving vehicles many miles behind the enemy's lines.
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The equipment on our side almost blind as far as long-rangeairborneradarwas concerned.
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This includesairborneradar, radio communications, navigation aids, and ground equipment, which is an essential part of any defence chain.
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The first is the possibility of using the most modern techniques of aerial surveillance, including the practicability of employing advanced equipment such as infra-red line scanning and side-lookingairborneradar.
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Those considerations demonstrate both the complexity of any future air battle and the immense technical challenge faced by industry when developing the next generation ofairborneradar.
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This was the first confirmed successful use ofairborneradarknown to history.
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Airborneradarsystems, carried by fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters, are also deployed to provide over-the-horizon targeting.
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The problem was not the availability of suitable aircraft but the lack of an effectiveairborneradar.
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This was vitally important forairborneradarsystems.
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It was the first air victory for theairborneradar.
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Other capabilities are extended visual and electronic searches over land or water, tacticalairborneradarapproaches and unimproved airfield operations.
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