Royal Radar Establishment

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The Royal Radar Establishment (German: Königliche Radareinrichtung) was a British radar research institute.

The name was given to the former Radar Research Establishment after a visit by the British Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. The abbreviation RRE could be retained. The establishment was formed in 1953 under its original name from the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) and the Radar Research and Development Establishment (RRDE). Both institutions worked on airborne and land-based radar systems.

The RRE was located in Malvern , Worcestershire , where the TRE and RRDE were in different locations. The original work of the TRE and the RRDE on radar , solid state physics and electronics , as well as hardware and software was continued in the now connected facility. Work on cryotechnology and other areas was added later . In the military sector, work was carried out on infrared target recognition for guided missiles and heat detection devices.

From its inception until 1959, the RRE was under the British Ministry of Procurement , then the Ministry of Aviation . When this was dissolved in 1967 , the Ministry of Technology took over management, in 1970 the Ministry of Aviation Procurement and in 1971 the Ministry of Defense . In 1976 the RRE was dissolved. Some tasks were taken over by the Royal Aircraft Establishment , others by the newly founded Royal Signals and Radar Establishment .

Web links

Former DERA North Site, Great Malvern - Cotswold Archeology. Archived from the original on October 15, 2007 ; Retrieved November 8, 2011 . Cotswold Archeology
Records of the Royal Radar Establishment , The National Archives

Individual evidence

↑ Robert Bud and Philip Gummett, Cold war, hot science: research in Applied Britain's defense laboratories , NMSI Trading Ltd. Science Museum, London, 2002.
^ RA Smith, Physics at the Radar Research Establishment, Malvern , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 235, No. 1200 (April 10, 1956), pp. 1-10.

[coldHot-1] Robert Bud and Philip Gummett, Cold war, hot science: research in Applied Britain's defense laboratories , NMSI Trading Ltd. Science Museum, London, 2002.

[physicsAtRRE-2] RA Smith, Physics at the Radar Research Establishment, Malvern , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 235, No. 1200 (April 10, 1956), pp. 1-10.