[Milsurplus] German Radar in Post-WW2 Use

[Hubert Miller]

A couple people commented in private emails. 

No, the article did not include any photos of NVA radars. I would guess such
photos reside in some U.S. intelligence publication. 

I would think original ammo was used up in training, so ammo supplied with
the German 88s would i think, be new production.

We know some Reich production lines kept operating a while after Reich
collapse. The Hetzer 38 tank is one example, ending 

up  in various countries, including Switzerland, if i'm not mistaken.

 

Here's something kind of mind-boggling to imagine: the German manuals on the
radars would have been translated into Russian.

Maybe they held back some technicians too, to do training.

In Vietnam, at least some operation type manuals would have to be done in
Vietnamese.

As for tubes for the radar, maybe Russians produced some of their own, or
used original factories.

( I saw some German radar tubes date coded in the last month or so of the
war - a lot of use to them, then! )

Maybe in time, we'll learn more about this. Or maybe official secrecy plus
housecleaning efforts meant most of those radar 

histories were trashed.

-Hue Miller

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