September 23rd, 2007, 03:07 AM
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Re: Question About Radar (and Radar Jamming)
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Originally Posted by Apathetical
Scenrario:
A squadron of German bombers (probably wrong choice of words) make their way to somewhere such as France. They want to bypass the French radar. Was there any sort of successful jamming device? And this isnt restricted to the French, this is saying was there ever any successful radar jamming device?
Or perhaps some way of decieving radar. Nowadays it is probably possible to jam a radar for the second world war... could anyone tell me how it would work? Perhaps to a link to a helpful page?
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The electronic war (I.e. the development of radar, radio jammers, radar jammers and counter-measures) is one of the real fascinating aspects of the European air war - one side would develop a technology, the other side would perfect a counter to it, an alternative or improved technology would be developed and on and on and on throughout the war. The main combatants in the electronic war were the Germans and the British… the electronic war was nowhere near as sophisticated in the PTO (I have no idea what went on in the Eastern Front radar-wise). The following chart (adapted from ‘Dirty Little Secrets of World War II’ - pp 202-207) gives a chronological rundown of the different technologies/counter-technologies that were developed through the war years.
DATE__ USER___ ITEM ___________FUNCTION
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2/40___Ger____Knickebein________Navigation beam
6/40___Ger____Wurzburg_________Detection Radar - 40 km range - flak control
9/40___Allies___Asperin__________ Knickebein jammers
9/40___Ger____Freya_____________Improved detection radar - 120 km range-no altitude
10/40__Ger____Wurzburg II_______Pair of radars-1 tracks bombers, other tracks interceptors
9/41___Ger____Wurzburg Reise ___Improved Wurzburg - 120km range
2/42___Ger____Lichstenstein______Airborne radar - night fighters - 200 - 3,000 m range
3/42___Ger____Mammut _________Detection radar - 330 km range - no altitude
3/42___Ger____Wasserman ______Detection radar - 240 km range - altitude detection
3/42___Allies___Gee ____________Airborne navigation from ground transmitters
6/42___Allies___Shaker __________Gee-equipped Pathfinders provide aiming points
8/42___Allies___Moonshine _______Amplified 'Freya' returns - for feint operations
8/42___Ger____Heinrich __________'Gee'-jammer; rendered Gee unusable by 11/42___
11/42__Allies__Mandrel ___________airborne 'Freya'-jammer
11/42__Allies__Tinsel _____________electronic communications jammer
12/42__Allies__Oboe ______________groundbased bombing radar - 430 km range -
1/43___Allies__H2S _______________ground mapping airborne radar - not debugged ’til 11/43
3/43___Allies__Monica _____________tail warning radar -range 1000m - warned of tailing a/c
3/43___Allies__Boozer _____________Radar receiver - warned of Wurzburg or Lichtenstein
6/43___Allies__A1 Mk 9 ____________Improved radar for night fighters
6/43___Allies__Serrate _____________Detected Lictenstein
7/43___Allies__Window _____________tinfoil strips - created an electronic ’smoke screen’
8/43___Allies__Special Tinsel ________Updated communications jammers
9/43___Ger____Naxburg ____________detected H2S
10/43__Allies__ABC ________________Airborne jammers - jammed German ground control system
10/43__Allies__Corona ______________Sp. Tinsel jammer - sent out false instructions to German Fighters
10/43__Ger____SN-2 _______________Night fighter radar - immune to Window - range 400-6,000m
11/43__Ger____Nurmburg ___________Modified Wurzburg - allowed detection through Window
11/43__Ger____Flensburg ___________Airborne Monica detector
12/43__Ger____Dartboard ___________sent coded jamming communications to fighter pilots
1/44___Allies__Oboe2 ______________Oboe with a new type of radar signal
1/44___Ger____Naxos ______________Airborne H2S receiver - used to locate H2S equipped bombers
4/44___Ger____Jagdschloss _________Jam-resistant ground radar - 150 km range
4/44___Ger____Egon _______________Jam-resistant fighter control radio - range 200 km
8/44___Allies__Jostle _______________Airborne multi-frequency ‘barrage’ jammer
9/44___Allies__Window 2____________jammed SN-2
10/44__Allies__Serrate 4 ____________detect and locate new SN-2
12/44__Allies__Perfectos ____________triggered German IFFto located enemy fighters
12/44__Allies__Micro-H ______________Backup alternative for Gee
As can be deduced, there were a lot of real smart people on both sides working all throughout the war to develope these technologies and their counter-measures.
Interesting stuff....at least, I think so!
-whatever
-Lou
Last edited by scarface; September 23rd, 2007 at 05:11 AM.
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