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- ↑ Martin Favorite. "Japanese Radar Equipment in World War II". Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
- ↑ Yasuzo Nakagawa (1997). Japanese Radar and Related Weapons. Aegean Park Press. ISBN 0-89412-271-1.
- ↑ but not officially used during the war