[ARC5] German Avionics Video

[Tim]

As Stalin supposedly said "Quantity has a quality all its own."

The Germans were making a few Mercedes Benz's, we were making lots of
Chevy's ...

Tim
N6CC

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

>
> I felt initially that "poor us", so stuck with conventional 1930s tech, in
> second place. But then i thought about the ART-13 10 channel Autotune (
> automatic retuning ) aircraft transmitter ( dating to 1939 ), the BC-348
> aircraft receiver, the BC-1000 FM backpack radio, microwave radar, High
> Frequency direction finding with CRT display, radar jamming equipment,
> proximity fuse anti aircraft shells, and so on, PLUS early models of
> computer to decipher German codes. German workmanship is
> impressive,but...at some point you have to do a cost - benefit analysis and
> realize a whole lot of wonderfully mechanically engineered stuff is bound
> to have a rather short service life...
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
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