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'''H2X''', officially known as the '''AN/APS-15''',<ref name="Brown1999">{{cite book|author=L Brown|title=Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYgsr3exvS4C&pg=PA548|date=1 January 1999|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-5066-0|pages=548–}}</ref> was an American [[ground scanning radar]] system used for [[blind bombing]] during [[World War II]]. It was a development of the British [[H2S radar]], the first ground mapping radar to be used in combat.<ref name=Jablonski>{{cite book |last=Jablonski |first=Edward |year=1971 |title=Volume 2 (Wings of Fire), Book I (Kites over Berlin) |url= |work=Airpower |page=49}}</ref> It was also known as the "Mickey set"<ref name="Mahoney2015">{{cite book|author=Kevin A. Mahoney|title=Bombing Europe: The Illustrated Exploits of the Fifteenth Air Force|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LADHCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA239|date=20 August 2015|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-0-7603-4815-4|pages=239–}}</ref> and "BTO" for "Bomb Through Overcast" radar.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.482nd.org/h2x-mickey |title=How H2X "Mickey" Got its name |website=482nd Bomb Group}}</ref>