Air Ministry Experimental Station
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For other uses, see Ames (disambiguation).
AMES or Air Ministry Experimental Station was the way of identifying RAF radar types during and after World War II
- AMES Type 1, Chain Home (CH) - Early Warning
- AMES Type 2, Chain Home Low (CHL) - Early Warning, LOW altitude
- AMES Type 3, Type 1 and Type 2 operating in close proximity
- AMES Type 4, Overseas Chain Home, also known as Intermediate CO or CO/ICH
- AMES Type 5, Chain Overseas Low (COL)
- AMES Type 6, Light Warning Set
- AMES Type 7, Final static GCI station (Happidrome)
- AMES Type 8, Various marks of GCI radars, mobile and semi-static
- AMES Type 9, Mobile Chain Home
- AMES Type 10, Mobile Air Transportable System
- AMES Type 11, Mobile sets as possible standby should 1.5 m CHL/GCI be jammed
- AMES Type 12, Low Frequency transportable Chain Home Low.
- AMES Type 13, 10 cm "Nodding" Height Finder. Transmitter and Receiver of Naval Type 277
- AMES Type 14, 10 cm surveillance radar
- AMES Type 15, GCI radar, mobile version of Type 7
- AMES Type 16, Fighter Direction Station
- AMES Type 17, Fighter Direction (abandoned)
- AMES Type 18, CHL/GCI Modified Type 11 Mk2 (H) with height finding (abandoned)
- AMES Type 19, GCI Final Standby Type
- AMES Type 20, Decimetric Height Finder
- AMES Type 21, Tactical Control. Five vehicle GCI convoy
- AMES Type 22, GCI / COL (similar to AMES Type 11)
- AMES Type 23, LOMAN Overseas LORAN system
- AMES Type 24, Long range 10 cm Height Finder
- AMES Type 25, Experimental CHL
- AMES Type 26, GCI British version of American MEW (Microwave Early Warning)
- AMES Type 27, Air Transportable GCI
- AMES Type 28, CMH Air transportable Height Finder
- AMES Type 29, CHEL (Chain Home Extra Low) Air transportable (abandoned)
- AMES Type 30, CD (Coast Defence) / CHL (Admiralty only)
- AMES Type 31, CHEL CD in wooden hut
- AMES Type 32, CHEL CD - Nissen hut - none built
- AMES Type 33, CHEL CD - brick built
- AMES Type 34, CHEL CD 200 ft tower
- AMES Type 37, CHEL CD
- AMES Type 40, CD/CHL
- AMES Type 41, CHEL
- AMES Type 42, CHEL
- AMES Type 43, CHEL
- AMES Type 44, CHEL
- AMES Type 46, CHEL
- AMES Type 47, CHEL
- AMES Type 48, CHEL
- AMES Type 50, CHEL
- AMES Type 7000, Hyperbolic navigation system - GEE ground station
- AMES Type 9000, Transponder-based navigation system - Oboe ground station
[edit] Post War
- AMES Type 80, 2.850/3.050Ghz 1MW S-Band Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Green Garlic
- AMES Type 82, 3Ghz 3D Early Warning and tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound - a.k.a. Orange Yeoman
- AMES Type 83, 4Ghz/10Ghz mobile tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound 1 - a.k.a. Yellow River, Stingray
- AMES Type 85, 2.75/3.25GHz, 54MW - improved high-power version of AMES Type 82 - a.k.a. Blue Yeoman
- AMES Type 86, 10Ghz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight
- AMES Type 87, 3Ghz 600Kw - balloon-borne Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Blue Joker
- AMES Type 88, 1.3Ghz/3Ghz Tactical Control/Surveillance radar - used in conjunction with AMES Type 89 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger
- AMES Type 89, 3Ghz Tactical Control Height Finder - used in conjunction with AMES Type 88 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger
[edit] References
- Bragg, Michael., RDF1 The Location of Aircraft by Radio Methods 1935-1945, Hawkhead Publishing, Paisley 1988 ISBN 0-9531544-0-8 The history of ground radar in the UK during WWII
- Latham, Colin & Stobbs, Anne., Radar A Wartime Miracle, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud 1996 ISBN 0-7509-1643-5 A history of radar in the UK during WWII told by the men and women who worked on it.
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