‘WEAKNESS IN RADAR’
Japan orders aircraft .
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TOKYO, February 22. The Japanese Defence Agency has; tentatively decided to acquire several “airborne early-warning” planes by 1976, because of a weakness in its radar airraid warning system, Kyodo News Service said this week. Kyodo said that the agency’s tentative plans also call for funds to develop a Japanese version of “earlywarning” planes now used by the United States and Britain; imported planes would cost SUSI2.Sm each.
By 1982, Kyodo said, the agency hopes to have about 20 such planes, to counter the radar system’s weakness in covering low altitudes.
The aircraft stay airborne for up to seven hours, working in co-ordination with the ground radar network.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32539, 24 February 1971, Page 5
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