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Brochure mentions the "multi-mode radar". Looking through mid-60s literature I see that the original Norden unit developed for the C-5A operated in X and Ku-band with terrain-following capability. This was integrated with the Honeywell AFCS for automated terrain-following. It incorporated frequency-agility and also had modes for weather contour mapping, radar approaches and station-keeping. Oddly I can't find a designation for the Norden radar.
From Q3 1983 onwards the Norden radar was replaced by the much less ambitous Bendix AN/APS-133 colour weather radar and the tactical modes were lost.
Norden RC-5, according to the document below:
Source: https://www.arl.noaa.gov/wp_arl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ARL-66.pdf