About The Vulcan Archive
The Vulcan Archive is a static reference site about the Avro Vulcan — the RAF’s delta-wing V-bomber — and the radar, navigation and electronic-warfare equipment that made the type usable as a weapon system. It is written for enthusiasts, students, museum volunteers and anyone who has stood under that wing and wanted a clearer picture of what the crew were actually doing.
The domain vulcan-radar.co.uk is deliberate. Searchers looking for “Vulcan radar” often mean the aircraft’s H2S, terrain-following set or Red Steer tail warning radar, not a consumer gadget. This site answers that historical question in public language, with diagrams, crew-station notes and links to longer essays.
How the pages are built
Articles draw on well-established open histories of the V-Force, squadron records that have been published, museum interpretation, and the technical outline of RAF airborne radar as it is described in secondary literature. Where a manufacturer, ARI number or exact fit is disputed in the literature, the page says so rather than inventing a serial-number certainty.
Photographs are royalty-free: Creative Commons, CC0, or US government public-domain images hosted on Wikimedia Commons. Captions credit the photographer and licence. Original diagrams (the plan-view radar fit, the site mark) were drawn for this archive. A full list is in img/CREDITS.txt.
What this site is not
It is not an official RAF, MoD or Avro Heritage publication. It is not a restoration manual, a flying-order substitute, or a guide to operating current military radar. Historic systems are described because they are historically interesting.
The name, and a related modern product
The archive is about the aircraft. A UK company sells a small desk-top aviation display under the Vulcan Radar name — a civilian live-traffic screen for enthusiasts, unrelated to the 1950s Navigation and Bombing System. If you arrived here looking for that hardware, the manufacturer’s site is vulcan-radar.com. Support for the desk unit is handled there, not on these pages.
Corrections
Aviation history is full of confident errors. If you maintain an airframe or hold primary documents that contradict a page, treat this as a living outline: the intent is to be useful and checkable, not to freeze a forum argument into HTML.