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I am quite familiar with the Battle of Britian Chain Home Low network of radars and control stations that vectored the RAF onto attacking German formations. In its time this was a world leading command and control sytem but how did it develop during the later war years? How did it compare to the German wild and tame boar sytems? What are the esteemed mebers of this forums views on its ability, I take it that it would be able to cope with massed raids if Germany was ever in a position to mount them. Any links would be most welcome.
I've heard about the Ifra red IFF on late war bombers but I presume this was only for air to air, did the uk ever utilise the air to ground navigation radar emissions as IFF in a similair way the Germans used them to find raiders?
11 Sep 1943. British Army occupy Bari.
2 Dec 1943. Luftwaffe air raid on Port of Bari.
Britain had about 11 weeks to secure their most important Italian seaport.
This is a very useful site on British radar or RDF as it should be called for WWII
The Radar Pages - Chain Home
I agree. But was Bari typical of late war British air defenses or did the RAF simply have a bad day?
What you mean "to be able to cope"? British were not able to prevent LW attacks during its last big bombing offensive against GB but could hinder LW efforts fairly effectively by forcing it to use less effective tactics in oder to keep losses on more sustainable level and even so LW losses were on unsustainable level for a long run
Operation Steinbock in Jan 44 loss rate was 7,8%, 57a/c lost
in Feb 5,2%, 72a/c
in March 8,3% , 75a/c
in April 8,7%, 75a/c
Juha
PS tactics were ground controlled interceptions but there were so many attacking bombers that many NFs had to rely on searchlighs etc I meant looking independently bombers caught by searchlights to find out where to began their search for the targets.
Juha