AMES Type 80
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The AMES Type 80, sometimes known by its development rainbow code Green Garlic, was a powerful early warning and ground-controlled interception radar developed by the Telecommunications Research Estab
The Type 80 radar at Metz in France run by the 61 AC&W Squadron of the Canadian 1st Air Division
Some feeling of the immensity of the Type 80 can be seen in this photo of men standing beside the prototype at Bard Hill.
The main bearing of the Type 80 at Metz failed in March 1958 and had to be replaced. This was a non-trivial operation that took three months to complete.
The Type 82 had a complex antenna that allowed it to measure altitude as well.
ROTOR
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ROTOR was an elaborate air defence radar system built by the British Government in the early 1950s to counter possible attack by Soviet bombers. To get it operational as quickly as possible, it was in
AMES Type 80
…radar in the UK from the mid-1950s into the late 1960s, providing coverage over the entire British Isles. In the late 1940s, the RAF developed the ROTOR plan to provide radar coverage over the UK in a phased rollout. As part of Stage 2, a new EW radar with long range would be deployed starting in 1957…
Entrance bungalow to former ROTOR station at Kelvedon Hatch