Seetakt was a shipborne radar developed in the 1930s and used by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. It is the first naval radar to enter...

of Radar. London: IEE/Peter Peregrinus. ISBN 0-86341-043-X. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Würzburg (radar). ORIGINS OF GERMAN RADAR: SEETAKT, FREYA...

developed as the Seetakt. First tests of what would become the "Freya" were conducted in early 1937, with initial delivery of an operational radar to the Kriegsmarine...

the Kriegsmarine revised its radar nomenclature system around 1943. It was derived from the earlier Seetakt search radar and had an antenna 2 m × 4 m...

for the FuMG 403 Jagdschloss FuMO 201: Flakleit - Using Seetakt 80 cm technology a 3D radar mounted on an underground armoured turret (originally an...

Squadrons to deceive German Seetakt coastal radar during Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable. Seetakt – a shipborne radar developed in the 1930s and...

The history of radar (where radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed...

relied on the Seetakt radar system. Scientists from the Telecommunications Research Establishment discovered that the resolution of the Seetakt was about...

Luftwaffe became aware of the Seetakt and ordered their own version in late 1938. Called the Freya, this was a ground-based radar operating around 2.4 m (125 MHz)...

with two sets of Seetakt radar. One was mounted on the forward gun director, which was located on top of the bridge. The second radar set was emplaced...

of action. Scharnhorst was unaware of Duke of York because her own Seetakt radar had been damaged. Hits from Duke of York's 14-inch guns slowed her until...

destroying the forward Seetakt radar controls and leaving Scharnhorst virtually blind in a mounting snowstorm. Without radar, gunners aboard the German...

installed. Before the end of the war, one ship, Oriani had a German Seetakt radar and an additional 20 mm cannon. All four ships were built by O.T.O....

including a windowless underground floor and the walled top deck where a Seetakt radar was installed. The land-side entrance is on the third level. Examples...

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the 9th, Gneisenau located the British battlecruiser Renown with her Seetakt radar; the call to battle stations rang out on both Gneisenau and Scharnhorst...

forces of its existence. GEMA’s product, an early-warning system code named Seetakt, was eventually demonstrated to the Luftwaffe General Staff in November...

not taken into use during the war. m/45 Maija FuMO 1 Seetakt  Germany Maritime surveillance radar 4 units 3 arrived in December 1943, and 1 in January...

encountered the British battlecruiser HMS Renown. Gneisenau's Seetakt radar picked up a radar contact at 04:30, which prompted the crews of both vessels...

rotating cupola, and on the front of each cupola the antenna of a FuMO 23 radar was installed. The main fire control station was mounted on the foretop...

the Seetakt system used a wavelength of 80 cm. A land based version at 120 cm wavelength was also developed as Freya. Telefunken set up a radar business...

5 in) thick faces and 80 mm thick sides. In Autumn 1937 a FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" set radar operating on a Wavelength of 80 cm was installed; in 1942, a FuMO...

Kriegsmarine against enemy air raids. The Kriegsmarine also manned the Seetakt sea radars on the coasts. At the beginning of World War II, on 1 September 1939...

the morning of Sunday 3 December 1939 by the use of its FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" Radar the Graf Spee made contact with the Tairoa which was under the command...

Admiral Scheer in order to give her a Quartz spare part for her defective Seetakt radar. U-124 drew a blank on her fifth sortie, failing to destroy a single...

development of the system. The basic DeTe eventually evolved into the Seetakt for the Kriegsmarine and the Freya for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force);...

Admiral Graf Spee was the first German warship to be equipped with radar. A FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" set was mounted on the foretop range finder. Admiral Graf Spee's...

Tantallon Castle in Scotland, using captured German Würzburg, Freya, and Seetakt radars. A particularly notable series of attacks caused the disabling and sinking...

installed. Before the end of the war, one ship, Oriani, had German Seetakt radar and additional 20 mm cannon. The four Orianis operated as fleet escorts...

invasion. A few weeks before D-Day, captured German Würzburg, Freya, and Seetakt radars (types used by the Germans defending the French coast), were moved to...