Hood's Type 284 gunnery radar and Type 279M air-warning radar are identified as equipment fitted by 1941. Radar measurements supplied target range and bearing. Personnel transferred that information into the fire-control equipment, where the computer performed the firing calculations. This was radar-assisted firing with manual data transfer between the radar and gunnery computer. The identification corrects initial uncertainty about Hood's gunnery equipment.
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Hood's radar and manual transfer into fire control
A correction identifies Hood's radar equipment and explains how radar measurements reached a gunnery computer through manual data transfer.