[ARC5] Japanese technology

[gordon white]

      Well, the Japanese were buying (or trying to buy) radio gear from 
Aircraft Radio Corp in the late 1930s. There was a whole file of 
correspondence from the Imperial Japanese Navy to A.R.C. in the stuff I 
rescued from Boonton in the mid-1980s and gave to the National Air & 
Space Museum.

     While they were behind in radar, their night-fighting at sea 
techniques were ahead of ours in 1941-42 (Maybe the Germans were giving 
them superior Zeiss night binoculars?) and their long-lance torpedoes 
were way ahead of ours for quite a while. Our superior technologies took 
a while to get into service as did our superior production. As Yamamato 
said. "I'll run wild for six months" then watch out. From December 7, 
1941 to June, 1942 (Midway) he did.

  - Gordon White