Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/AN/APS-20

Nominator(s): Simongraham (talk)

I am nominating this article for A-Class review because I feel both that it meets the criteria and the topic of radars have insufficient coverage in the encyclopedia. The article passed a GA review some time ago so hopefully it is now ready for promotion. simongraham (talk) 01:37, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye7

Looks fine to me. Some suggestions:

"At the same time, 31 large Boeing PB-1W aircraft were converted from B-17G Flying Fortresses to become the first land-based aircraft equipped with the radar. They were especially designed to combat the increasing threat of Japanese Kamikaze attacks" Are the Flying Fortresses or the Avengers the ones designed to meet the Kamikazes? The latter seems more likely to me. (Although I checked the details of Project Cadillac II with Airborne Early Warning and Control: A Piece of the Puzzle (pp. 12-13) and it does seem right.) I would separate them, as all the rest of the paragraph is about the Avenger and Cadillac II is already mentioned in the Design and development section above, so maybe you don't need to mention it here at all.
This source also talks about the limitations of the radar. "The APS-20 gave a bearing to the target, but could not determine the exact altitude of the target, so its radar ‘fix’ was two dimensional. The target might be at low, medium or high altitude... Another limitation of the APS-20 was that it did not perform well over land. The radar could not pick out low flying aircraft from the ‘ground clutter’ of trees, hills and moving land vehicles."
There is still a dubious-discuss tag
The aircraft are not listed in alphabetical order - F comes after D
What were Warning Stars?
Link authors Norman Friedman and Norman Polmar

Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]