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>> As it happens, captured german radios from aircraft (mostly telefunken) were much admired by our
>> research boffins. And some of their radar was so good, we had to send commandos
>> over there to steal it.
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Along with a RADAR specialist to tell them what components to take and what to leave behind I seem to recall reading about. Some very brave people about.
I also remember reading about the guy responsible for RADAR in the UK.
One of the main problems was getting the things in to the field in sufficient numbers. They were needed "yesterday" so they tested to build systems that just did, without any fancy features. The fancy features, upgrades if you like, would come in the second, third and fourth and later generations.
The policy meant that night fighters had rudimentary radar that worked relatively early on in the war, which was better than no radar.
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