The first use of the site for astrophysics was in 1945, when Bernard Lovell wished to use some equipment left over from World War II, including a gun laying radar, to investigate cosmic rays.
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Although the published closure date known for this airfield relates the World War II airfield, the Army maintained an Anti Aircraft training camp across from RAF Weybourne using 40mm Bofors guns linked to AA4 mk7 gun laying radar.
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A formal proposal for a SCR-268 replacement was made by the Signal Corps in January 1941, by which point the RadLab had already formed what they knew as Project 2 to develop this advanced gun laying radar.
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These low heights defeated the rate of traverse of the standard British gun laying radars based on the cavity magnetron and the development of the proximity fuze helped to neutralise the advantages of speed and size which the V-1 possessed.
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The two quickly began development of two projects, the Mobile Radar Unit ( MRU ) which was a mobile version of Chain Home, and Gun Laying radar, a much smaller unit designed to provide range measurements against aircraft as an aid to aiming their anti-aircraft artillery.
