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AN/SPG-53

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AN/SPG-53
Mark 68 director containing SPG-53
Mark 68 GFCS director with AN/SPG-53 radar antenna on top.
Country of origin United States
Type Gun fire-control
Range 120,000 yd (59 nmi)[1]
Precision Fire control quality, three-dimensional data
Power 250kW (SPG-53A)[1]

The AN/SPG-53 was a United States Navy Gun Fire-control radar (International Telecommunication Union classification: radiolocation land station in the radiolocation service), used in conjunction with the Mark 68 gun fire-control system.

It was used with the 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun system aboard Belknap-class cruisers, Mitscher class, Forrest Sherman class, Farragut class and Charles F. Adams-class destroyers and Knox-class frigates of the US Navy, as well as Australian Perth-class destroyers and Spanish Baleares-class frigates.[2]

In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the "AN/SPG-53" designation represents the 53rd design of an Army-Navy electronic device for waterborne fire control radar system. The JETDS system also now is used to name all Department of Defense electronic systems.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedman, Norman (1981). Naval Radar. Conway Maritime Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780851772387. 
  2. ↑ "File:SPG-53 Radar with Mk 68 Director.jpg - Wikimedia Commons" (in en). 9 May 1978. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SPG-53_Radar_with_Mk_68_Director.jpg. 

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