An audience contribution identifies heavy early-warning radar and height-finding sets as a problem for an escort carrier's topweight allowance. Fitting a shorter-range search set limited the useful warning available from the accompanying height finder. Below-deck space mattered too: a ship needed a sufficiently capable combat information centre to use its radar and night-fighting equipment effectively. Sensor choices therefore had to fit both the ship's weight limits and its air-control arrangements.
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Escort-carrier radar needed weight and control-room capacity
Radar capability aboard an escort carrier depended on topweight limits and the space available to control aircraft.