AN/ALR-3 Radar Warning Receiver info wanted

I have this vision of you trying to mount it in your car as a radar detector. All you need is a surplus AIM7 missile to take out the cop car....

bob

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Well Bob, mounting it in my car would be easy, for it's about the size of a shoe box. As to the rest of your vision, it's a radar *warning* receiver, so the same situation applies to my 17-year-old small car as when rumbling along in a Neptune: discretion is by *far* the better part of valor. The idea is to preserve the ALR-3 system as an operating entity rather than a dead black box.

John

There's the DoD "ASSIST" database with a portal for public documents (including many MIL-STDs) at

Your best bet may be to determine what command was the last in-service engineering agent (ISEA) for that gear. The ISEA is responsible for life-cycle support and should have had all of the prints and manuals.

However, in addition to just identifying who that command *was*, you may also need to track down who it *is* today, since many of the ISEAs wandered among commands as a result of various BRACs over the years, from NAVSEA or NAVAIR to NAVELEX to SPAWAR, with associated changes in the command name and code.

I'd start with finding whoever has ISEA responsibility for the current generation ALR receivers.

You might ask the Historical err National Electronics Museum about it. It's got all KINDS of radars; AND if you get it going I suspect they can help test it... if they are allowed to run any of them.

It's a short ride from BWI, and you could get to BWI in only 20-24 hours crammed into a coach seat....