Re: news of the day


Fred Bloggs wrote:

> John Woodgate wrote:
> > I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote (in <4336AC37.2020909@xxxxxxxxxx>) about 'news of the day', on
> > Sun, 25 Sep 2005:
> >
> >> The very first anti-aircraft fire control radar, developed by MIT
> >> Radiation Laboratories for the US Army Coastal Artillery Command, was
> >> expressly designed to counter the V1 attacks on GB, and delivered in
> >> large quantity to them well before the US entered the war.
> >
> >
> > The US had a future-predictor well before December 1941? Reports about
> > the V2 rocket were the first V-weapon information received by Allied
> > Intelligence, in December 1942. It wasn't until June 1943 that reports
> > were received about winged craft. It wasn't until January 1944 that US
> > Intelligence accepted that the V1 represented a real threat. The first
> > V1 launches against Britain, ten craft, were on the night of 12/13 June
> > 1944.
> >
> > Information from 'Most Secret War' by Prof. R V Jones.
> >
> > Anti-aircraft guns were not the weapon of choice against V1, because
> > unless the craft exploded in the air, it might crash somewhere
> > disastrous. Spitfires were a bit too slow in level flight to catch V1s
> > and destroy them at sea. But later aircraft such as Tempest could. They
> > would even fly alongside, put a wingtip underneath and overturn the V1.
>
> There is such a thing as layered defense, the SCR-584 was developed and
> produced by US for your use, and those aircraft theatrics you mention
> would have been extremely difficult at night or other low visibility
> conditions. Are you saying that the search radar was not used to at
> least cue the interceptors or did they just hang above your skies 24/7
> eyeballing the situation? Remarkable.

Actually the interceptors often just hung around the firing sites.

V1s flew so fast that ground control guided interception would have been
futile. The interceptors could never have converged on the target.

Graham


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