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interesting tidbit about avro lancaster submarine hunters

Discussion in 'Submarines and ASW Technology' started by mike471, Mar 24, 2014.

  1. mike471

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    my uncle was a radar operator in a radar equipped avro lancaster submarine hunter. im thinking this may have been the first example of AWACs aircraft. they would fly over the english chanel searching for german submarines and then alert the nearest destroyer. anyway these were extremely primitive versions of radar so i guess it was sending all kinds of different rays, maybe gamma rays or maybe even microwaves. he said that when ever he would turn on the radar the fillings in his teeth would get really hot.
     
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