In fact you would be hard pressed to find another nation so inept in using the radar. They could not develop their own radar-fuse and had to use american design for anti-aircraft shells.
No, the radar proximity fuse was a British design, manufactured in the US.
Name a country that used radar as well as Britain.
Germany had radar at roughly the same time. They didn't integrate it into a network like the British did. The Chain Home and Chain Home Low networks were far ahead of their time, and proved their worth in the BoB.
Britain also developed airborne radar, for detecting enemy aircraft, surface search radar, even airborne early warning.
Britain flew the first working airborne radars in 1938, and had squadrons in service in 39. Germany flew their first airborne radar in 41.
Britain also developed the first ground mapping radar, H2S.
But they equipped their bombers with rear-facing "Monica" radar. It was guaranteed to always show the danger because british planes were sent in a stream a few miles one after another and the radar did not differentiate between enemy and friendly targets.
Hundreds of german Me-110 nightfighters (Shrage Musik variant) were equipped with radar that specifically homed on Monica emissions from 50+ miles away which allowed them to find and destroy hundreds of british bombers with impunity. No damaged planes survived to tell the tale until a german landed his fighter in England by accident.
Yes, but Britain also developed Serrate, which homed on German nightfighter radar, and Perfectos, a system which tripped German IFF.
But they equipped their bombers with rear-facing "Monica" radar. It was guaranteed to always show the danger because british planes were sent in a stream a few miles one after another and the radar did not differentiate between enemy and friendly targets.
Hundreds of german Me-110 nightfighters (Shrage Musik variant) were equipped with radar that specifically homed on Monica emissions from 50+ miles away which allowed them to find and destroy hundreds of british bombers with impunity. No damaged planes survived to tell the tale until a german landed his fighter in England by accident.
Tac
Enigma was not a code you could "break" and then read at will.
The codes changed constantly, and each individual message had to be broken.
The capture of code books gave an insight into what settings were being used, no more. It still required a huge effort to crack individual messages.
His offensive could've ended the desert war but for a decision Churchill made that could rival any of Hitlers, when he was ordered to send his Armoured Brigade, and 3 Infantry divisions including his best troops: the Australian and New Zealanders to Greece.
Tronsky
Britain has traditionally fought against European powers on the periphery, for example Napoleon in Egypt, then Spain, before finally engaging on the European mainland.
That was the case in WW2 as well, first in North Africa, then Italy, before finally France.
Seen in that light, drawing out the war in NA, and enabling Britain to continue fighting a small part of the German army, was a good decision. It allowed Britain to use it's traditional strength, the RN, to inderdict Geman supplies.
The North African campaign was ultimately costly to Germany. Several panzer division, a large proportion of the Italian army, a large percentage of the Luftwaffe, and the same level of supplies as a much larger army on the Eastern Front were tied down for a couple of years. Eventually Germany lost several hundred thousand troops in NA.
