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Radar in World War II greatly influenced many important aspects of the conflict. [1] This revolutionary new technology of radio-based detection and tracking was used by both the Allies and Axis powers in World War II , which had evolved independently in a number of nations during the mid 1930s. [ 2 ]
It was the U.S. Army's primary long-distance radar throughout World War II and was deployed around the world. It is also known as the Pearl Harbor Radar , since it was an SCR-270 set that detected the incoming raid about 45 minutes before the 7 December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor commenced.
Hohentwiel (FuG 200); UHF-band radar, operated at wavelength between 52 and 57 cm. Range was between 10 km for a small vessel like a surfaced submarine to 70 km for a large ship. Under the best circumstances it could see the coast at approx 150 km. It had separate antennae for transmit and receive.
This is a list of World War II electronic warfare equipment and code words and tactics derived directly from the use of electronic equipment.. This list includes many examples of radar, radar jammers, and radar detectors, often used by night fighters; also beam-guidance systems and radio beacons.
The Type 271 was a surface search radar used by the Royal Navy and allies during World War II.The first widely used naval microwave-frequency system, it was equipped with an antenna small enough to allow it to be mounted on small ships like corvettes and frigates, while its improved resolution over earlier radars allowed it to pick up a surfaced U-boat at around 3 miles (4.8 km) and its ...
H2X, eventually designated as the AN/APS-15, [2] was an American ground scanning radar system used for blind bombing during World War II.It was developed at the MIT Radiation Laboratory under direction of Dr. George E. Valley Jr. [3] to replace the less accurate British H2S radar, the first ground mapping radar to be used in combat. [4]
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The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution. Touchstone. ISBN 0-684-83529-0; Hezlet, Arthur (1975). Electronics and Sea Power. New York: Stein and Day. ISBN 0-8128-1811-3