Vought A-7 Corsair II, APQ-116 Fire Control Radar System.

This is the A-7 Corsair located at NAS Lemoore in 1976

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This is the instrument panel of the A7 Corsair II showing the APQ-116 fire control Radar Display

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This is a good photo of the APQ-116 fire control radar in the A-7 Corsair. The APQ-116 had many useful modes. If I can remember correctly, they were, Weather, Fire Control, Bomb Direct, Ground Map, Terrain Following and Terrain Avoidance and Walleye Modes. By modern standards, this system was antique. It has a black and white display and a limited range and resolution. The newer radars found on the F-14 Tomcat, the AUG-9, is much more sophisticated using a flat plate antenna and capability of tracking as many as six targets simultaneously.

For those that don't know, RADAR stands for Radio Detection and Ranging.