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| Country of origin | United States |
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| Type | Medium-range search radar |
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TheAN/FPS-14 was a medium-range searchRadar used by theUnited States Air ForceAir Defense Command.
This medium-range search radar was designed and built byBendix as a SAGE system gap-filler radar to provide low-altitude coverage. Operating in the S-band at a frequency between 2700 and 2900 MHz, the AN/FPS-14 could detect at a range of 65 miles.
The system was deployed in the late 1950s and 1960s at unmanned radar facilities (called "Gap Fillers") designed to fill the low-altitude gaps between manned long-range radar stations. Gaps in coverage existed due to the curvature of the Earth, mountains, hills, valleys, rivers, and so forth[clarification needed].
The typical unmanned gap-filler radar annex consisted of a small L-shaped cinder-block building, with the radar equipment and the data-transmission equipment in one section and one or more diesel generators in the other section. These unmanned gap-filler sites generally had a three-leggedradar tower about 85 feet tall where the AN/FPS-14 Radar was mounted inside a radome.
In accordance with theJoint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the "AN/FPS-14" designation represents the 14th design of an Army-Navy electronic device for fixed ground search radar.[1][2] The JETDS system also now is used to name allDepartment of Defense electronic systems.
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