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H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system. It was developed for the Royal Air Force 's Bomber Command during World War II to identify targets on the ground for night and all-weather bombing.
FuG 350 Naxos & FuG 351 Korfu: This was a family or radar detectors that operated in the 8 to 12 cm band. They were primarily designed to locate Allied H2S radar transmissions. A range of antenna were used some stationary and some rotating. There were intended to be air, land and maritime versions.
"The H2S team also protested that it would take the Germans two years to develop a centimetric radar once the cavity magnetron fell into their hands, and that there was no reason to believe they weren't working on the technology already. The first concern would prove correct; the second would be proven wrong."
Radar, Air-to-Surface Vessel, Mark III, or ASV Mk.III for short, was a surface search radar system used by RAF Coastal Command during World War II.It was a slightly modified version of the H2S radar used by RAF Bomber Command, with minor changes to the antenna to make it more useful for the anti-submarine role.
Each train used "existing U.S. Army stock" from Ogden General Depot, [6] and each train's 21 cars (17 support and 4 radar cars) included "a generator car, two box cars (one for radar equipment maintenance, and one for support maintenance) [a] dining car, two day-room cars, supply cars, admin car, and 4 [crew sleeping cars]."
III radars, which had been developed from the H2S equipment. This U-boat is equipped with the Fliege and Tunis antennas. The Naxos radar warning receiver was a World War II German countermeasure to S band microwave radar produced by a cavity magnetron. Introduced in September 1943, it replaced Metox, which
Canadians on Radar: Royal Canadian Air Force 1940 - 1945. ISBN 9780968759608. Gough, Jack (1993). Watching the skies: a history of ground radar for the air defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1975. HMSO. ISBN 978-0-11-772723-6. Lovell, Bernard (1991). Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar. CRC Press. ISBN ...
The Rowe book BTW, is One Story of Radar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.248.89 22:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC) The part of the article that describes the German's investigation of H2S does not square with the facts. The Germans were well aware that a 10cm radar was a desireable thing to have.