Description Today, air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, or more generally maritime surveillance radars, are installed on maritime reconnaissance aircraft for long-range detection, tracking and classification of surface ships (ASu W - Air to Surface Warfare) and for hunting submarines (ASW - anti-submarine warfare).
Such radars were first developed in the UK during WWII as part of the response to the threat to shipping from German U-Boats.
This book describes the ASV radars developed in the UK after WWII (1946-2000) and used by the RAF for long-range maritime surveillance.
Iop Concise Physics Airborne maritime surveillance radar: volume 2, post-war british asv radars 1946-2000, paperback/simon watts
