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Article #5426RE: detector-detectors in WWII
From: Bob Berger
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 18:58
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 18:58
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> In WW II, the Germans installed radar detectors on U-boats. These > also had a problem with local-oscillator radiation, and Allied ASW > aircraft were able to home-in on them without radar. The above statement is NOT true. The mistake is understandable, however, because the above statement is EXACTLY what a captured British navigator said when his German captors asked how the submarines were being found. What was really happening is the British were using a new X band radar which was beyond the frequency coverage of the German radar detectors. The story about local oscillator leakage was deliberate disinformation. Pretty sneaky, huh? Source: "Submarines" Antony Preston Gallery Books ISBN 0-8317-8526-8
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!vi.ri.cmu.edu!rwb From: rwb@vi.ri.cmu.edu (Bob Berger) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: RE: detector-detectors in WWII Keywords: it ain't true Message-ID: <10090@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 2 Aug 90 18:58:11 GMT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 19