The Avro Vulcan and Vulcan Desktop Radar
The Avro Vulcan is Britain’s delta-wing V-bomber. Vulcan Desktop Radar is a modern UK desk plane tracker named after that aircraft — not a replica of its military radar, but a live aeroplane display that borrows the nickname and the atmosphere.
Avro Vulcan: Type 698, V-force and a famous shape
The Avro Vulcan (Type 698) entered RAF service in the 1950s beside the Victor and Valiant. The pure delta wing, four Olympus engines, and later the B.2’s larger compound-sweep planform made it one of the most recognisable silhouettes in British aviation. XH558, the last to fly, kept that shape in public memory long after the V-force stood down.
People search “Vulcan radar” and often mean two different things: the bomber’s own sensors, and the desktop product sold here. This page is the official product site’s account of the aircraft name. Vulcan Desktop Radar is the hardware; the Avro Vulcan is the namesake.
Radar on the Avro Vulcan
Avro Vulcan crews did not fly on the delta wing alone. The Navigation and Bombing System used H2S Mk 9 ground-mapping radar. Green Satin Doppler measured velocity and drift. Later B.2s carried terrain-following radar in the nose thimble for low-level work. Electronic countermeasures and, in some roles, maritime radar reconnaissance sat alongside that fit.
Those trades — sweep, range, a glowing scope in a dark cabin — are why “Vulcan” still sounds like radar to British aviation people. Vulcan Desktop Radar does not reproduce H2S or Green Satin. It shows live ADS‑B traffic on a 5-inch colour display with a rotary 10–200 NM range control, for enthusiasts at a desk.
From bomber nickname to desk plane tracker
Naming the product Vulcan Desktop Radar is a tribute to that airframe and to the radar operators who sat behind it. It is also a practical brand: a UK-made desktop plane tracker and aeroplane radar for home and office, with no subscription product model and a cloud feed for personal awareness only.
If you arrived looking for Avro Vulcan history, stay and read — then look at the live instrument we actually sell. Vulcan Desktop Radar is made in Cornwall, UK, and sold from our business address in Poole. It is not for navigation, air traffic control, or safety-of-life decisions.