Editing Gato-class submarine (section)

===Radar picket===
[[Image:USS Raton;0827015.jpg|thumb|right|{{USS|Raton|SSR-270}}]]
The advent of the ''[[kamikaze]]'' demonstrated the need for a long-range radar umbrella around the fleet. Surface ships [[radar picket|refitted with powerful radar suites]] were put into service, but they proved vulnerable in this role, as they could be attacked as well, leaving the fleet blind. A submarine, though, could dive and escape aerial attack. Two ''Gato''-class ships ({{USS|Grouper|SS-214|2}} and {{USS|Finback|SS-230|2}}) received rudimentary conversions to radar pickets before the end of World War II, but were not used in this role. After further experimenting with the concept on four ''Balao'' and ''Tench''-class boats under Projects Migraine I and II, and realizing that a deep diving depth was not overly important in this role, six ''Gato''s were taken in hand ({{USS|Pompon|SS-267|2}}, {{USS|Rasher|SS-269|2}}, {{USS|Raton|SS-270|2}}, {{USS|Ray|SS-271|2}}, {{USS|Redfin|SS-272|2}}, and {{USS|Rock|SS-274|2}}) for conversion under [[Radar picket#Converted and purpose-built submarines|Project Migraine III]] (aka SCB 12A). They were lengthened by {{convert|24|ft|m}} to provide additional space for an air control center and had powerful air-search and height-finding radars installed, with the after torpedo room converted into an electronics space with torpedoes and tubes removed. They also received a streamlined "sail" in place of the traditional conning tower fairwater. Redesignated as SSRs, these ships were only moderately successful in this role, as the radars themselves proved troublesome and somewhat unreliable. The radars were removed and the ships temporarily reverted to general-purpose submarines after 1959.<ref name="Alden, Part IV"/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_14/coldwar.html |last= Whitman |first=  Edward C. |title= Cold War Curiosities: U.S. Radar Picket Submarines |magazine= Undersea Warfare |date= Winter–Spring 2002 |issue= 14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191220153433/https://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_14/coldwar.html |archive-date= 20 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Friedman|1995|pp=90–94, 253}}</ref>