The low-UHF band Würzburg radar was the primary ground-based tracking radar for the Wehrmacht's Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War...
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laying radar, Würzburg Riese ("Würzburg Giant"); the Freya finding targets at long distances and then "handing them over" to the shorter-ranged Würzburgs for...
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Operation Biting (category Radar)
long-range early-warning radar system but lacked precision, and Würzburg had a much shorter range but was far more precise. Würzburg FuSE 62 D, also had the...
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Chaff (countermeasure) (redirect from Window (radar countermeasure))
airborne jammer targeted at the German Freya radars, while Carpet targeted the gun-laying Würzburg radar. Ignorance about the extent of knowledge of the...
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developed the Würzburg-Riese and GEMA enlarged the Freya dipoles to make the Mammut and the Wassermann. The Würzburg-Riese (Giant Würzburg) had a 7.5-m...
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to jamming various models of Würzburg radar were developed to operate on various frequencies called "Islands". Würzburg A First production version introduced...
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defeat German gun-laying radar. By the end of World War II, two were installed in most Eighth Air Force bombers. The Würzburg radar was one of the most common...
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Conical scanning (category Radar)
earliest radars, and many examples of lobe switching sets were modified in the field to conical scanning during World War II, notably the German Würzburg radar...
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Naxos receivers were also combined with the parabolic antennas from Würzburg radar systems to produce a long-range receiver tuned to the British Oboe radio...
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LORAN Sonar Historical radars List of radars Chain Home and Chain Home Low Würzburg radar Hohentwiel radar H2S radar SCR-270 radar ITU (2020). "Chapter...
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industries (the Würzburg radar was named after the city, but not produced there) and hosting around 40 hospitals at the time, Würzburg was targeted as...
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FuG 25a Erstling (category Aircraft radars)
1939 the Würzburg radar was chosen to replace an earlier fire control radar from Lorenz. This led to the Zwilling, which responded to the Würzburg signals...
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Kommandogerät ("command device") fire control computer or a portable Würzburg radar, which were responsible for its high level of accuracy against aircraft...
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FuG 200 Hohentwiel (redirect from Hohentwiel (Radar))
anti-aircraft radar for the Luftwaffe, it lost out to the Würzburg for this role. In 1941, it was modified as an airborne surface search radar for naval patrol...
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Mobil Anti-Aircraft Radar (Japanese-built Würzburg radar) Ta-Chi 28 Aircraft Guidance Device Ta-Chi 31 Ground-Based Target Tracking Radar Model 4 Modify Ta-Chi...
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Seetakt (redirect from Seetakt radar)
were secondary objectives. Actually using it for gun laying, like the Würzburg radar developed for the German army, was initially not a priority for the...
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Operation Biting, a raid to dismantle and steal the radar dish or components of the German Würzburg radar at Bruneval. The raid was the second time the fledgling...
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long-range radar and associated structures. The larger Southern zone had two intermediate-range Freya and two short-range Würzburg Riese radars; as well...
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radar project. Conical scanning was also adopted in 1941 for the Navy's 10 cm fire-control radar system, and it was used in the German Würzburg radar...
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German Würzburg radar and there were concerns that it would be triggered by that radar and the transponder responses would be picked on its radar display...
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them during World War II against the German conical-scanning Würzburg radar. Monopulse radars are similar in general construction to conical scanning systems...
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1160s Veit von Würzburg (1519–1577), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg Würzburg (district), a Landkreis Bavaria, Germany Würzburg radar, a German radar system during...
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Combined Operations Headquarters carried out Operation Biting to capture a Würzburg radar that had been photographed near the French coast. This led to concerns...
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German Würzburg radars near the end of World War II. The technique is not useful against monopulse radars, and is one of the main reasons those radars became...
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Würzburg radars, with a range of about 30 kilometres (19 mi). Unlike the early-warning Freya, Würzburgs were accurate (and complex) tracking radars....
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Siwa Oasis, and Atlantic Seawall Battery; Europe Campaign: Rail Gun, Würzburg Radar, and Fuel Dump), as well as hundreds of custom maps made by the gaming...
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a raid by Combined Operations in 1942. Their objective was a German Würzburg radar installation at Bruneval in France. Due to the extensive coastal defences...
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Peene about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from P-7 and the Doppler radar at Lubmin (a motorized Würzburg radar, the "rhinoceros"). The control room also had switchboards...
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Radio astronomy (redirect from Radio and Radar Astronomy)
astronomy Radar astronomy Time smearing X-ray astronomy Waves (Juno) (radio instrument on the Juno Jupiter orbiter) Radio Galaxy Zoo Würzburg radar#Post-war...
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Freya radar station at Bruneval, their presence was radioed down to the Würzburg tracking station, who began tracking their movement. The Würzburg radar crew...
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