[Milsurplus] Robert Watson-Watt and British Radar

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi:

It's on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zu-L7Gb5m-o

Some W.W.II Trivia:
1. The U.S. Mk 14 torpedo had a half dozen design flaws that made it pretty much useless for the first half of the war.
https://prc68.com/I/Torpedoes.html#Background

2. Soon after the invention of the modern torpedo by Whitehead the world's navies came up with the battleship as a 
countermeasure (the big guns have a range that's greater than a torpedo).  The Ford Instrument Company built both the 
Gun Director and the Torpedo Data Computer, both trying to solve the problem of hitting a moving ship from a moving 
platform.  In my opinion the elephant in the room that was not seen is that "range", how far something can go, is very 
different from the range where the probability of a hit >50%.   I maintain they can NOT hit a target at anywhere near 
those ranges. That means battleships were obsolete the day the first plans were drawn.  So someone made a huge mistake 
bombing battleship row since they were not a threat to anyone.

3.  A similar problem exists for dumb/iron bombs.  It's not that they can't hit the broad side of a barn, it's more like 
they can't hit the barnyard.
https://prc68.com/I/Gyroscopes.html#Norden

PS I was in the Old Crows for a few decades.  Mainly worked on Radar Warning Receiver components, see:
https://prc68.com/I/RWR.shtml

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Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
https://www.PRC68.com
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