Hello to all:
Hartmann10 wrote:
Among with the US Navy night fighters and also the RAF night fighters. It was the only way to make an effective defence at night. I don´t see any different way to deal with the problem: The "SM", "SP" (both Navy radar sets) and "SCR-584" radar sets were used in this way, even when the main use of the "SCR-584" was the gunlaying. Also some British sets were used in this way in the "Baby Blitz" of 1944.
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That's interesting about the USN use of GCI techniques, Javier. I don't see a better way to deal with the problem either.
Yes, David. I have a document concerning the use of these radars from carriers to guide the fighters to the enemy, and also, the modification for surveillance and fighter direction against kamikazaes of the destroyer pickets with SP and SP-1M sets (all of "Gearing" class, and some of Destroyer Escorts). I can send you via Mail the info.
So many things.
Re. Nightfighters ;
1: "The proof of the pudding ....." the British using NON "state of the art" radar had the ability to hunt the German fighters, that is fact.
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Who has said that Britsh Night Fighters used non state of the art radars? If you don´t know, the AI MK X set is only a "cropped" (lightweight) US SCR 720 radar, with one of the two displays modificed according to the needs of the RAF. Even more, the USAAF delayed more than half a year the entry of the P-61 "Black Widow in service because of the desperate pledges of Churchill to Roosevelt concerning the SCR 720. During half a year allmost all the SCR 720 sets manufactured were sent to the RAF, so the USAAF had a highly specialised Night Fighter, the P-61 "Black WidoW" useless in Great Britain because of It didn´t have radar sets installed.
Even more, the RAF, used far more of 20 years the AI MK X set (the US SCR 720) after the war because they didn´t have anything better.
The centimetric sets designed by the RAF scientist were too complex to develope and/or excellent for laboratory, but not well suited for combat conditions. That is a fact. The MK VIII set was fastly retired by this reason. The main reasons were the overly complex spiral scanning and automatic target adquisition. The Germans made an automatic lock on system which was very effective and capable, the "Elfe", capable of being coupled to a wide variety of different radar sets.
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