[Milsurplus] GORAX more...

[Hue Miller]

Mike ( Hanz ) :
Dispassionately, with no bias for or against the HF jamming gear, what is 
your idea
of the utility of airborne tank-jamming equipment?
Seems to me you have to have aircraft linger circling for longer than is 
healthy.
There weren't too many situations in Europe I can compare, for example, to 
Kursk
or Kharkov ( sp? ) or other massive armored clashes of the Eastfront.  Maybe 
at
D-Day, disrupting German defenses rushing to the point? Jamming of infantry
radios from aircraft, this just strikes me as silly.
So much of the tank clashes in Europe seem to be highly episodic and not 
real
practical to coordinate ECM aircraft with.  You were lucky to get the P-47s 
from
some front line field to disrupt Panzer actions.
As for knowledge of German comm operations, since most of their doctrine
and much of their equipment was developed around 1937, it wasn't much of a
mystery to anyone.

Sometimes the military invested in ideas that seemed fine but just didn't 
work
out. Consider the DU, no suffix, HF-DF up to 8 Mcs. That attempt at HF DF 
from
aircraft ( for navigation, not to seek out subs ) just didn't work out well, 
for
reasons we hashed over some here, a couple years back. And so they dropped
the range above 1.5 Mcs for the subsequent  DU-1 production. Or the Navy's
behind-enemy-lines radio, the MBM, apparently according to memoir, it just
didn't work out.  Was delivered in the Philippines but rejected by users.
-Hue