. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. 148 Dahlgren. Tank struck by 8-inch guided projectile. The Command Detonation fuze was so controversial that it was cancelled within 3 months after we started. The fuze required a fairly significant redesign of the fire control radar. Airborne Instrument Laboratory had redesigned the fire control system, and when the Command Detonation fuze was cancelled we had a fairly significant radar effort which had other spinoffs of importance to the Navy. It was decided then that the radar would continue in spite of the fuze cancellation, and that got to be known as the
. Dahlgren. Dahlgren Laboratory. 148 Dahlgren. Tank struck by 8-inch guided projectile. The Command Detonation fuze was so controversial that it was cancelled within 3 months after we started. The fuze required a fairly significant redesign of the fire control radar. Airborne Instrument Laboratory had redesigned the fire control system, and when the Command Detonation fuze was cancelled we had a fairly significant radar effort which had other spinoffs of importance to the Navy. It was decided then that the radar would continue in spite of the fuze cancellation, and that got to be known as the 53 Echo Radar Development with the major objective of improving the Navy's ability to counter low-flying targets. The 5-inch guided projectile was in the Gunnery Improvement Program when it was first established, but the controversy and politics of having the guided projectile associated with the Gunnery Improvement Program were so great that it was finally splintered off into a program of its own. The improve- ment of the 5"/54 MARK 42 mount was part of the program, and we had a lot of trouble with the MOD 7 mount in the Vietnamese War. Part of the Gunnery Improvement Program was to upgrade that mount, insofar as possible, to the technology of the period, so it became known as the MOD 10 mount with greatly improved reliability. That has been a very successful part of the pro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McCollum, Kenneth G. Dahlgren, Va. : Naval Surface Weapons Center
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