Template:Did you know nominations/AMES Type 85

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:57, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

AMES Type 85[edit]

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... that by the time it was operational in 1968, the RAF's AMES Type 85 radar (pictured) was considered as obselete as the "trip wire" concept that spawned it?Source: https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1974/1974%20-%200980.html

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 23:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC).

Reviewed: Arthur R. Gralla. Have an image for this if this if need be. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:57, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Looks good as far as I can understand all that technical jargon. I added the image to the hook so the promoting editor can decide whether to use it or not. The hook is reasonably interesting but could benefit from some abbreviating, e.g. ... that the RAF's AMES Type 85 radar (pictured) was considered obsolete by the time it became operational? Regards So Why 20:58, 19 January 2019 (UTC)