Interesting interview of a German Flak gunner on TV last night. His battery was hit by a Mossie, heres some interesting statements he made:
- The mossie was the only buff that made it to 30k (late Nov 1944) over targets
- This was out of range of the 88s (I notice all the German vets call everything by centimeters, ie 8.8, 2 (for 20mm).
- The mossie scored direct hits on the flak batteries radar and barracks, first pass from 30k
Some cool things they showed
- long range acoustic sensors that could pick up buffs taking off from England
- close range acoustic sensors used to guide searchlights (included a correctional computer for sound delay) onto buffs at night
- operations of the computational rangefinders for the 88 batteries
AND the coolest thing - the flak looked JUST like the stuff in AH. Those guys in World War II got their flak model just right <G>
-vlkn- in