Type 42 DDG Fire Control Radar

[pmaidhof]

Annex says forward Radar 909 can control the Mk8 Gun or a Sea Dart SAM

F(1)1 Mk8 114mm/55//1 Radar 909

F(2)1 GWS30 w/22 Sea Dart//2 Radar 909

do we agree that there are 3x Radar 909 on the Coventry?

Thanks

[kmart494]

I think Coventry had an aft Radar 909 that could control just Sea Dart.  The forward Radar 909 could control either the gun or Sea Dart.  So, just two Radar 909s.

[pmaidhof]

Thanks. That's the way I read it in the remarks until I looked at the weapons lines, which seem to indicate three. I will go with two unless I hear anything authoritative. 

[pmaidhof]

Jane's Recognition Guide lists the Type 42 having two Radar 909 Fire Control Radars. 

[CV32]

Two Type 909/GWS-30 radars on each Type 42 class destroyer, including HMS Coventry (D118), circled here in red.

Each radar has three antennae, but you don't see those, of course.

 

[pmaidhof]

Thanks Brad