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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    about 30 km. Unlike the early-warning Freya, Würzburgs were accurate (and complex) tracking radars. One Würzburg would lock onto the target as soon as the...
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    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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  • table was a Freya radar and two Würzburg-Riese radars. Freya radars would pick up and track the bombing raids and an attached Würzburg radar would then select...
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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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  • continue to reflect and are shown by the radar, they cannot be distinguished from the decoy cloud. German Würzburg radar was susceptible to Window attack. The...
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  • 90) Land radar (parabolic antenna) Land radar (Fire control radar FuMG 39 „Würzburg“) Land radar (AN/FPQ-16 early warning radar) Sea-mobile radar (Active...
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    German night fighter direction vessel Togo (category World War II German radars)
    Sea. As NJL Togo, she was the second of the Kriegsmarine's World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war. After the war, Togo passed through...
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    detector warning Freya, the Würzburg were a tracking radar, the Würzburg FuSE confirming target azimuth and height. The Wurzburg first deployed as an FuMG...
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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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    two Würzburg radars, with a range of about 30 km (19 mi). Unlike the early-warning Freya radar, Würzburgs were accurate (and complex) tracking radars. One...
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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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    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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    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...
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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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    wavelength system from Telefunken (almost certainly adapted from their Würzburg radar). Range was also increased from the original 150–300 km (93–186 mi;...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    SCR-270 (redirect from SCR-270 Radar)
    being developed in Great Britain, but not to the more advanced UHF Würzburg radars being developed in Germany. This wavelength did turn out to be useful...
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