Author Topic: radar plane? (Read 1423 times)

karmic · « **on:** September 09, 2005, 02:50:25 AM »

was there such a thing as recon planes with radar on them in wwii? could make a perk plane who's primary function is to get high alt and fly over an area with its radar revealing enemy units in radar range.

Larry · « **Reply #1 on:** September 09, 2005, 04:46:37 AM »

Karnak · « **Reply #2 on:** September 09, 2005, 10:17:12 AM »

Airborne radar was not used in that way in WWII. There was no WWII equivilent of an AWAC aircraft. Airborne radar in WWII was used for three purposes. 1) To hunt enemy aircraft in conditions that made visual hunting impractical, mostly at night. 2) To detect enemy aircraft coming into attack position, though in some cases, most notably Monica on Lancs and Halibags, this tail warning radar was actually homed in on my the Germans. 3) Air to surface radar to help bomb aimers and navigators with their jobs in conditions when the ground is not visible. It may also have been used to find ships from the air, I do not know about that one way or another.

Schutt · « **Reply #3 on:** September 09, 2005, 10:42:18 AM »

Radar was used to find u-boats and to find enemy ships. It was also used to help the firecontroll on battleships/cruisers, for range finding and aim calculations.

Karnak · « **Reply #4 on:** September 09, 2005, 11:34:06 AM »

Yes, I knew about the fire control on ships, but that isn't aircraft carried radar so it doesn't pertain. I am not surprised at all about the radar being used to find ships, as that was how I personally guessed. I didn't know though so I wasn't going to make a claim on it.

hyena426 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 09, 2005, 02:17:39 PM »

pby catalina had on board radar and would track down planes out of countries radar zones..they had killer radar for its day..the pby black cat was well known for hunting and shooting down zero's and ships at night...they would fan out and make there own radar zones..they helped stop the invasion of alaska...plus the plane was produced in ww2 by allmost every allied country including russia..and had good long range..all thou slow,,i guess they were very tuff..i wish they were in aces high..

Bronk · « **Reply #6 on:** September 09, 2005, 03:12:41 PM »

Hmmm thought the P-61 had an early radar system onboard. But I could be mistaken.

Bronk

SuperDud · « **Reply #7 on:** September 09, 2005, 04:02:31 PM »

I wanna fly 30k and do recon!!!

Rino · « **Reply #8 on:** September 09, 2005, 05:29:00 PM »

What's stopping you now, ya goofball

SuperDud · « **Reply #9 on:** September 09, 2005, 05:46:00 PM »

I don't have a radar plane:(

Rino · « **Reply #10 on:** September 09, 2005, 07:36:29 PM »

Come on Dud, every single plane we have now is a "radar"
plane:aok

Meatwad · « **Reply #11 on:** September 09, 2005, 08:44:32 PM »

Quoting Al, "I dont think so, Tim."

SuperDud · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2005, 05:00:47 AM »

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Originally posted by Rino
Come on Dud, every single plane we have now is a "radar"
plane:aok

But it's not "the" radar plane. I want one thats soul purpose is to do radar sweeps.

Rino · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2005, 02:10:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Meatwad
Quoting Al, "I dont think so, Tim."

Ok Meatwad, explain to me how you can see a dot on radar
that represents a bird out of icon range behind and under your
tail then? Cousin Cleo's magic crystal ball?

Meatwad · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2005, 06:08:52 PM »

Cleo is a crook!

I use the combination of my magic 8 ball and the voices I routinely hear in my head.