Radar Made Easy

Today, radar in one form or another is likely to turn up everywhere: in the street, at the waterfront, in an underground motor-road. By far the widest use of radar is made by the military and scientists. In all of these fields thousands upon thousands of radar sets are at work. Some of them are small enough to be fitted into spectacles, others weigh hundreds of tons. In this booklet based mostly on Soviet and foreign periodicals the reader will find a story of radar. It tells, in a simple and informal manner, what radar is, what it does, and how, and why is it that radar has come to playa leading role in the present-day world. The booklet uses not a single mathematical formula; where necessary, pictures come to the reader's help. The booklet has been written for a layman interested to know how and where radio and electronics serve man. From it, the reader will learn quite a number of facts, sometimes unexpected, about the capabilities of radar.