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Originally Posted by Fincuan
Interesting post, and the comments too. The blog post and the comments seem to suggest that US Navy ships, or at least this particular ship, don't normally have a civilian type maritime radar with a master display on the bridge. Does anyone know if that's really the case? Judging by various pics of USS Porter I'm seeing at least two such antennas in the forward mast, and imho it would make no sense to put the master displays anywhere else except for the bridge.
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Arleigh Burke class has two somewhat comparable radars.
AN/SPS-67 (AN/SPS-(V)2 onboard Burkes, pic below)
which is digital version of AN/SPS-10 (pic below)
and AN/SPS-73 (AN/SPS-73(V)12 onboard Burkes, no pic).
AN/SPS-67 is military radar used for surface search and navigation. AN/SPS-73 is militarized civilian Furuno radar. If I have understood this correctly both radar sets use console originally developed for AN/SPS-73 and that console is in bridge.
I would appreciate if some Navy people here could say is that true?