To start a new topic, it is interesting to note that all of the major combatants of WW II had developed working radar sets prior to the onset of WW II, including Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States. More interestingly, Germany had what were probably the best developed sets in 1939. In 1945 Germany was technically behind every other nation listed except Italy, now out of the war and, Russia who depended largely on Western supplied sets in favor of their own limited developments in this field.
Even Japan had exceeded Germany in radar development by mid-war in technical quality (having developed centimetric radar and cavity magnetrons independently....something Germany did by capture of British airborne H2S equipment and took until late 1944 to actually produce working sets) if not in manufacturing quality and quantity. Of course, it was the "tag team" of Britain and the US who out did everyone else in this field.

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Welcome to the forums T.A.

great topic in my opinion.

A personal insight from interviewing a "few" Luftwaffe nachtjägd crews, a real problem as they have said was so many different types of radar sets to contend with and the simple jamming done by the RAF really frustrated the Luftwaffe. New sets in late 44 into 45 were easily jammed and the only thing Luftwaffe "black men" could really do is try to re-set frequencies of the external radar aerials be changing the angle for increased performance.
So frustrating it was that notable aces just left their forward sets off (although this could be costly when RAF Mossie night fighters were in the area), that they just used the famous FuG 350ZC Naxos to home in on the RAF heavies or by concentrating on the largest amount of window (Düppel) in one area, and then they coudl find the RAF four engine bombers.
Only with the advent of the FuG 240/1 Berlin set was there any freedom, but with only 12 sets made and maybe 3 Ju 88G-6 flying with any type of success would be slim.......too late.....

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Recently been reading Max Hastings´ Bomber command
so not my ideas presented here...



He had some ideas on radar etc development
( Freely by what what I remember ) :

"By 1940 Germans were far ahead with the radio beam system. Not until 1943 did the British catch up but afterwards they were clearly ahead of the Germans during the rest of the war. The US forces were totally depending on the British systems."

" The Gee was captured soon by the Germans and started jamming effectively along the entire front after eight month´s of its capture"

The increasing use of GEE inevitably led to a GEE set falling into German hands. It was not surprising to the British but within five months of its operational début the Germans started to jam transmissions. This first took place during a raid on Essen on 4/5th August 1942. Due to severe icing conditions only 18 out of 38 aircraft were able to drop bombs in the Essen area. Four days later on the 9/10th August during a raid on Osnabrück, the jamming became more effective although the bombing was still held to be a success.

http://www.nucleus.com/~ltwright/HISTORY%20OF%20GEE.htm

For Oboe the problems were:

"The main problem with Oboe was that the curvature of the earth restricted the range of all landbased signals and so the system could not be used against certain parts of Nazi Germany such as Berlin and Hamburg."

So it´s range was about the Ruhr area.

As well the British had only two control stations that could keep up with 12 bombers over the target at a time...

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWoboe.htm

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