[ARC5] U boat radar detector

[J. Forster]

Helped by the British ruse that it was IR detection, rather than short
wavelength RADAR, and German Naval decrypts.

-John

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> "Early British aircraft used the 176 Mc ASV Mk II radar until the Germans
> developed the Metox receiver which detected the signal from the airborne
> radar thus allowing the sub to dive and escape detection."
>
> When the microwave radar came out the Germans noted that the Metox set
> (made
> in France by the Metox company) was not detecting the radar and decided
> that
> the Allies had found out how to home in on the LO of the Metox receiver
> and
> so turned them off.
>
> Wayne
>
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