[ARC5] Japanese technology

[J. Forster]

> Not true regarding radar, our army radar in 1941 was better that what the
> Brits had and our Navy radar was even better.  However, the Brits
> initially organized the use of their radar better.

Yes. The Brits had what we'd call a layered "Integrated Air Defense"
system which enables them to assign very limited resources effectively.
Otherwise the Battle of Britain would have gone the other way.

> Remember it was all super secret
> at the time and the Brits had better PR people.

The effectiveness of the Brit system could be easily judged from bomb
damage and crashed Nazi planes. There were no such meaningful attacks on
the US continent.

YMMV,

-John

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> While the British
> invented
> magnetron made a quantum leap in performance we were no slouches when WWII
> began.  As for torpedoes, that was another sad story.
> Ray