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    flying RAF aircraft, and thus beyond the range of Oboe. The campaign had to depend upon straight navigation and H2S. Bomber Command's efforts against Berlin...
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  • An oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Oboe or OBOE may also refer to: Oboe (navigation), a World War II British aerial blind bombing...
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  • distance from one of the Oboe stations to the target was measured and an arc of that radius drawn on a conventional navigation chart. For instance, for...
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    radio navigation system, still in use (US and Canadian operations terminated 2010). CHAYKA, the Russian counterpart of LORAN SHORAN Oboe (navigation) G-H...
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    concentrate its advanced navigational systems in the Pathfinder units. Most widely used were the H2S ground scanning radar and Oboe navigation system, the former...
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    [specify] 3 Mosquitos. 27/28 December 1944 [specify] 7 Mosquitos on Oboe (navigation) trials (some flew over Kassel).[citation needed] 6/7 January 1945...
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    accuracy of Oboe, but could be used by as many as 90 aircraft at once. This basic concept has formed the basis of most distance measuring navigation systems...
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  • Lutterade, a small town in the Netherlands. Led entirely by the new Oboe navigation system, several bombs fell within 2 km of the target. The test was...
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    (radio navigation) Battle of the Beams CHAYKA GEE (navigation) G-H (navigation) Global positioning system LORAN Oboe (navigation) OMEGA Navigation System...
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    VOR-only station. The TACAN navigation system is an evolution of radio transponder navigation systems that date back to the British Oboe system of World War II...
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  • GEE, the early war RAF navigation system for night bombing Kammhuber Line List of World War II electronic warfare equipment Oboe, the December 1941-launched...
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  • Aachen and Brest—the Brest attack was the first operational use of the Oboe navigation system 18 December: Blenheim aircraft conducted the first night intruder...
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    Loran-C (category Radio navigation)
    difference. Gee (navigation) Gee-H (navigation) Global Positioning System Local positioning system Oboe (navigation) Omega (navigation system), the Western...
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    similar to the earlier Oboe system. The navigator would first pick a station to be the "cat" signal, using it as the main navigation beacon. The range from...
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  • poor in a raid on Berlin, which is beyond the range of the Gee and Oboe navigation aids. British bomber losses are small. Target indicator bombs are used...
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  • Lieutenant Peter Romsey is an RAF navigator, involved with developing the Oboe navigation system; London urgently requires his safe return. Romsey is accompanied...
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    Group whose role was to guide the bombers to the target using the Oboe navigation system. The bombers were escorted by 13 British fighter squadrons and...
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  • receiver. The system operated on a principle similar to the British OBOE navigation system. An IFF signal was sent from a Freya, that had had its receiver...
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    equipped with a CD Mk.4 radar. The station also operated as an Oboe Navigation Station. Oboe worked using two stations at different and well-separated locations...
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  • Rowe, assisted by Alec Reeves, also led in the development of the Oboe navigation system and the ground-scanning H2S radar. In 1946, Rowe moved to Australia...
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    Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted...
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    Farm. The site later operated GEE (navigation) equipment. Sennen is listed as a location for an Oboe (navigation) site, and the RAF site can be assumed...
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  • the RAF had ever undertaken. It covered the RAF tactics of using the Oboe navigation system to guide its heavy bombers, and the use of the de Havilland...
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    Oboe could be jammed and suffer interference from Monica and other Bomber Command devices. Oboe Mk I operated on a frequency of 1.5 metres, K Oboe was...
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  • and radar officer of the RAF Pathfinder Force, helped to develop the Oboe navigation system John Hedley Brooke, historian of science[citation needed] Dr...
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    campaign the RAF used more sophisticated navigation aids; on the night of the 7/8 December 1941 the Oboe navigation aid was employed for the first time. Concerned...
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    Oboe could be jammed and suffer interference from Monica and other Bomber Command devices. Oboe Mk I operated on a frequency of 1.5 metres, K Oboe was...
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  • with visual backup marking, from Newhaven, East Sussex. Oboe – British twin beam navigation system, similar to Knickebein but pulse-based. Parramatta...
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  • many radar and radio navigation systems. These included the development of portable radar systems, and both Gee and Oboe navigation systems. One particularly...
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    This allowed attacks outside the range of the various radio navigation aids like Gee or Oboe, which were limited to about 350 kilometres (220 mi) of range...
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