[Milsurplus] item of interest

[William Donzelli]

> The Brits were far ahead of us on VHF techniques.

What is "far"?  To be honest, I do not think far was very far at all.
At most, maybe two years.

>  Their
> radar shows that.

Do not sell the early US efforts so short - our first three radars
(SCR-268, SCR-270/271, CXAM) were pretty good units when they started
deployment in 1941. They had relatively few teething troubles compared
to the British equipments that came before. They stayed in the labs
and underwent trials far longer than the British sets that were often
released for deployment while still in a prototyping stage. If the US
was pressured to release the early sets as were the British, there
would have been active (but buggy) radars in the US military in the
late 1930s (SCR-268-T1, CXZ, XAF, and other stillborns and kludges).

Anyway, the Germans ruled the VHF radar mound for the entire duration
of the war.

--
Will