Interesting article on radar myths.

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Interesting article on radar myths.

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Here's something to chew on. This article was orignally available within the USAF War College data bases. A cleaned version is now posted at a Spitfire web site:

http://spitfiresite.com/2010/04/deflati ... ar-ii.html

A few comments.

Page 2. Hulysmeyer's 1904 apparatus failed to generate much interest mainly because it could not measure range. Just the indication that an object is detected but at an unkown distance is of limited value.

Page 4. Freya was developed from Seetakt and Seetakt was not a development of Freya. Freya and Seetakt are the same basic design except for operating wave length. Metric wave lengths were better suited to long range air warning than decimetric wave lengths.

Page 5. The Kriegsmarine also snooped for signs of British radar in 1939 and 1940, but unlike the Luftwaffe they succeeded in discovering Chain Home. The Kreigsmarine snooping effort like the LW's lacked the equipment needed to identify the extremely long wave length of the British radar, but the KM equipment detected the PRF (pulse repetition frequency) and the KM correctly deduced the existence of CH and its purpose. This was apperantly not communicated to the LW.
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Re: Interesting article on radar myths.

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That last sentence underlines the need for a combined forces general staff, which Hitler abolished in favour of himself. Yet another military blunder by the Fuhrer.
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