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rebecca-eureka system

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: rebecca-eureka system
 
(ri′bek·ə yu̇′rē·kə ′sis·təm)

(navigation) An aircraft radar homing system in which an airborne interrogator-responsor (rebecca) homes on a ground radar beacon (eureka) that has been dropped or set up in advance; the system can also give the distance from the rebecca radar to the eureka beacon.


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