As faster aircraft pushed combat air patrols further from the fleet, the Royal Navy needed to see farther than its ships' radar horizon allowed. One report describes Swordfish experiments testing that idea because the aircraft already carried anti-submarine radar. The report had not been checked against the National Archives and is presented as plausible rather than established. The passage offers a possible technical link while showing why an intriguing lead must be separated from verified development history.
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From Swordfish radar to airborne early warning
A report links Swordfish radar experiments to early carrier airborne-warning work, with an explicit caution that the claim had not yet been verified in the archives.