[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 163, Issue 30 ( VT fuze )

[Hubert Miller]

I have read two compilation books of remembrances of Japanese aviators and never have seen this claim about vision.
Altho, at least initially, the training was extremely selective and seems to have been physically very rigorous too.
However, by the time of the Okinawa battle and the suiciders, Japanese veteran Japanese aviators had been thinned out
a whole lot, and Japanese losses were increasing due to less experienced pilots; some of the suiciders were minimally
trained relative novices.

I thought the Japanese aircraft radar operated around 450 MHz, but I haven't read about this for a long while. The ground
radar, if I recall, did operate somewhat below 200 MHz. Since the Japanese did have (some) aircraft radar, this seems a
valid concern, that their aircraft could be equipped with some kind of countermeasure  jammer. I think I read that their
aircraft radars were easily flummoxed. A successful jamming on their part would require them figuring out what was
happening, and how, and then somehow marshalling their punished industry to produce a new electronic product. Which
at this stage, I think would have been extremely difficult in any numbers; maybe impossible.

I realize this doesn't answer Jack's question as to what specific equipment the U.S. Navy used. I don't know U.S.N. radar
jamming equipment, shipboard equipment. It occurred to me, how do you sync spoof signals to VT fuze firing, so that the
VT fuzes are not triggered short ?
-Hue
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