Anti-Aircraft Searchlight - Palm Springs, CA
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bluesnote
N 33° 49.968 W 116° 30.276
11S E 545838 N 3743727
A WWII anti-aircraft searchlight on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum.
Waymark Code: WM16QNT
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/18/2022
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The sign says, "WW II searchlights formed part of a system of aircraft detection linking (a) locator device, (b) searchlights, and (c) antiaircraft (AAA) guns. The locators Sent electronic information to the lights and guns, which in turn tracked the target in synch with each other. once a locator had "locked on" to an aerial target, the concept was for both lights and guns to be trained on the target (via the height and distance data received from the locator) so the target could be nearly simultaneously illuminated and then destroyed. Locators were first based on sound and heat detections, and ultimately radar became the preferred methods of target acquisition. Units were generally separate, but advances in radar technology late in the war saw the integration of radar into both searchlight and AAA gun designs."
Type of Machine: Searchlight
Year the machine was built: 1940s
Year the machine was put on display: Unknown
Is there online documentation for this machine: [Web Link]
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