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Smallest radar to support Aim-7 Sparrow AAM?

I have a request please gents!

I am after the smallest manufactured and fielded radar (its designation, and if possible its radar dish size?) for a fighter/interceptor aircraft, which could support the firing of the Aim-7 Sparrow AAM?

Thanks in advance

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By: Pioneer - 28th December 2017 at 20:48

OK, revisiting this post in the hope that we might have more info and more substantiated answers with time

Came across this interesting article:
http://retromechanix.com/vought-v-383-v-384-day-fighter-original-f8u-crusader-proposal/nggallery/image/the-rocket-installation-consisted-of-an-internal-tandem-two-row-package-carrying-sixty-2-air-to-air-folding-fin-rockets-the-rocket-pack-was-located-on-the-aircrafts-belly-well-aft-of-the-nose-air-i

As my original question pertained to my want and need to fit a radar supporting Aim-7 Sparrow AAM to the Vought V-383 Crusader, I find it intriguing that the manufacturers brocher clear says that ‘four Sparrow missiles’ could be carried by the V-383 and smaller and lighter V-384, I again can’t help but wonder if it only required a CW Illuminator, and where would this have gone?

Looking at these fantastic insightful drawings of the original V-383 and V384, would such a CW Illuminator have been carried in place of one of the rocket packs?
Also, the four under-wing hardpionts/pylons (two under each wing), were these two hardpoint totally eliminated from the ‘production standard’ F-8A Crusader?

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Pioneer

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