File:USS Missouri (BB-63) radars 1944.jpeg

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Description View of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) looking aft towards the number three battery and the superstructure. Note the 20 mm antiaircraft gun mounts in the foreground and the SG surface-search radar antenna atop both mainmasts and the circular antenna for the SK-2 air-search radar on the foremast. Also visible are two Mk 37 gun directors with Mk 12 fire control radar for the 12.7 cm artillery and the Mk 38 gun director with Mk 8 fire control radar ("hedgehog") for the 40.6 cm artillery.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2001.256.046
Author U.S. Navy

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