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• Radar-absorbent material
  ...ncies than others; there is no one RAM that is suited to absorption of all radar frequencies. ...er 2009}} on the surface of an [[F-117 Nighthawk]] allowed long-wavelength radar to track and shoot it down. RAM is only a part of achieving stealth.
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• USS Durant (DE-389)
  ...54, and reclassified '''DER-389''', 7 December 1955. After conversion to a radar picket escort ''Durant'' was recommissioned 8 December 1956 and reported to
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• USS Brister (DE-327)
  ==Conversion to radar picket ship== On 1 September 1955 ''Brister'' commenced conversion to a [[radar picket]] escort vessel at [[Charleston Naval Shipyard]]. She was recommiss
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• USS Lansing (DE-388)
  ...e 1952. Upon her return to the Navy in 1954 ''Lansing'' was converted to a radar picket escort ship and given the [[hull classification symbol]] DER-388 21 ...ed the Pacific Barrier 2 June 1957 for operations out of Pearl Harbor as a radar picket. From 1957 until 1965 she made regular patrols, ready to provide ear
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• USS Hissem (DE-400)
  |Ship caption=USS ''Hissem'' (DER-400) as a radar picket ship ...tion was changed to DER-400. The special purpose of DER (Destroyer Escort Radar picket) ships was the detection of aircraft. Their chief role was to exten
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...ships did not experience good hunting but investigated numerous sonar and radar contacts with negative results. On 16 December, ''Willis'' moored at the co ...d TG 22.8, left the screen of the task group to investigate a disappearing radar contact reported by aircraft from {{USS|Core|CVE-13}}.
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• USS Menges (DE-320)
  On 3 May ''Menges'' was 15½ miles astern of the convoy chasing down a radar contact when she was hit at 0118 hours by an [[G7es torpedo|G7es]] [[acoust
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• USS Leopold (DE-319)
  ...s consequently altered. On 9 March, while south of Iceland, she reported a radar contact at 19:50 at {{convert|8000|yd|m|abbr=on}}, which placed it {{conver
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• USS Fessenden (DE-142)
  == Converted to Radar Picket Ship == ...July 1957 for [[Pearl Harbor]], her home port for Pacific early warning [[radar]] picket duty from 18 August 1957 until 18 March 1960 when she left the [[H
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• USS Huse (DE-145)
  ...s remained in the area searching until just after midnight 12 June when, [[radar]] revealed a surfaced [[submarine]]. The badly damaged [[U-490]] was finish
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• USS Blair (DE-147)
  ...d to [[Charleston, South Carolina]], where, on 7 November, the ship's SA [[radar]] was removed and DAQ HFDF ([[High Frequency Direction Finding]], or "Huff == Converted to Radar Picket Ship==
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• USS Sturtevant (DE-239)
  == Conversion to Radar Picket Ship == ...tevant'' entered the [[Philadelphia Naval Shipyard]] for conversion to a [[radar picket]] destroyer escort ship. The conversion process lasted until 5 Octob
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• USS Tomich (DE-242)
  ...10th, ''Tomich'' arrived at [[Quonset Point, Rhode Island]], for special [[radar]] and [[antisubmarine]] warfare tests and exercises with [[USS Barracuda (S
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• USS Otterstetter (DE-244)
  == Post-War Conversion to Radar Picket Ship == ...ing ''Otterstetter'' and converting her from a [[destroyer escort]] to a [[radar picket]] destroyer escort.
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• USS Snowden (DE-246)
  .... On 12 June, ''Snowden'', Frost, and {{USS|Inch|DE-146}} made a surface [[radar]] contact. Inch illuminated the target with star shells, and it was identif
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• USS Stanton (DE-247)
  ...,500 yards, and headed for the target. The [[U-boat]] disappeared from the radar screen, but sonar contact was made. ''Stanton'' fired a pattern of hedgehog
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• USS Hurst (DE-250)
  ...figuration, all anti-submarine equipment and all of the original U.S. Navy radar-controlled [[gun director]]s have been removed.<ref name=Wertheim />
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• USS Sellstrom (DE-255)
  == Conversion to radar picket ship == ...d was brought to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for overhaul and conversion to a [[radar picket]] escort ship. Having been redesignated DER-255, ''Sellstrom'' was r
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• USS Harveson (DE-316)
  == Conversion to radar picket ship == ...e on patrol, the former destroyer escort, outfitted with the most modern [[radar]] and early detection warning devices, cruised off the coast of the [[Unite
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• USS Kretchmer (DE-329)
  ...oston, Massachusetts]], 18 December to commence operations in the Northern Radar Barrier. Based at [[Newport, Rhode Island]], from 1957 to 1962, she remaine ...remained through part of October. ''Kretchmer'' then departed for further radar picket escort duties off Vietnam through 1966 into 1967. Her continued pres
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...{{USS|Leopold|DE-319|6}}, which was [[torpedo]]ed while investigating a [[radar]] contact. ''Joyce'' steamed at top speed for Derry and arriving 11 March, == Converted to Radar Picket Ship ==
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