[Milsurplus] WWII Lifeboat Radar Reflector

[William Donzelli]

> I took a look at this, it's pretty big compared with the modern equivalent - 
> probably to suit the longer wavelength of  WWII search radars? The fishing 
> and seismic industries still use this sort of thing but about 1 foot cube in 
> size.

These reflectors are about the same size - about a cubic foot.

I think that most serach and rescue missions would have been done using
aircraft with X band radar, rather than the long wave stuff.

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org