[Milsurplus] German Radar in Post-WW2 Use

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 >We know some Reich production lines kept operating a while after Reich collapse. 
 

 From what I've been reading of the history of WWII, the Russians sometimes carted off entire factories so they may not have needed German production at all.

Wayne
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From: Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
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Subject: [Milsurplus] German Radar in Post-WW2 Use



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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