It would seem Ground Surveilance Radar has been around since at least the 1980's. here's a Falklands story from the AViate magazine (Summer 2007):
...In those days, our EW fit consisted of the Hand Held Radar Warner Mk2(HWR2), a bit of kit like a large pointy ray gun, which you plugged into the mic-tel of your helmet. You would occasionally get random beeps or squeaks from it, but that was about as far as it went. On this day it suddenly gave a brisk ‘breep!’ Very strange, I thought: that was just like the EW training tapes we had to listen to during ground training. Breep, breep...breep, breep. Crivens I said to myself (being unplugged from the intercom...
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