Some models had extra equipment installed which made them non-swimmable, such as heavy-duty winches, communications shelters that made them top heavy, or radar gear.
There were several French trucks parked down the runway, with portable radar gear off in the grass.
The radar gear thoughtfully identifies these, onscreen, as the radar antennas of Phalanx antimissile guns.
He paused, glancing at a large chart of the Sea of Japan and East Asia on the bulkhead above the radar gear.
The cargo ship departed the Mediterranean on 25 September 1944 and returned to the United States to have improved communications and radar gear installed.
Without radar gear they were blind.
He peered at the tape, and reached to finger the buttons of his radar gear.
The plane came down for a smooth landing amid the radar gear.
Probably bringing in more radar gear and arming those warheads, is my guess.
I could see men moving about her decks and a lot of radar gear on her upper works.