During World War II, the German Luftwaffe relied on an increasingly diverse array of electronic communications, IFF and RDF equipment as avionics in its aircraft and also on the ground. Most of this e
FuG 10 radio panel from a Dornier Do 17
FuG 16 Z radio
Battle of the Beams
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The Battle of the Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing in the Unit
Luftwaffe radio equipment of World War II
…operationally deployed 3 beam navigation systems during the first part of the war. Knickebein, X-Gerät and Y-Gerät. For more information see the main page Battle of the Beams Knickebein: Development started on this system in 1934 based on work done by Lorenz. The initial work was to develop their ILS system but further work…
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