Durring the war most of the advancement made in radar tech was minituraization so it could be put on ships and planes and stuff. But in the decade or so following the war radar came a long way as well as radio navigation systems like VOR that is still in use. They made a step twords modern TACCOM and ACC but it was they very first step and not as big as some think. After the alert went out it was still up to the pilots to go out and find things to kill.
At Stalingrad all air coordination was done with forward observers armed with radios or telephones to alert airfields of enemy movements in the air or on the ground. I don't know what it is but it is over there.'Įven at the battle of Britan a lot of the intercept work was done with forward observers in the Channel aided by radar setups on the coast. Radar was litterally a machine that would say, 'There is a thing over there.
There was no IFF, no transponders, hell there was no way to distinguish a plane from a sufficiantly large group of birds. Even suposing the planes had radios, even radio navigation equipment, that were similarly cutting edge they still would not be vector in on contacts relyably. There was no way to identify what a contact was and who it was loyal to. Once it was clear that Moscow wasn't going to fall they started setting up a radar net there though.īut even the cutting edge radars of the day couldn't do much more that report a contact at a given range. The big problem for the Soviets was all the radar they had set up and operational was in Syberia for testing and development. I think they got some radar equipment or maybe just some technical descriptions from the Brits in fact. The radar tech the Soviets had was about as advanced as the Brit's set up at the outset of the war, though many of their planes lacked onboard radios at that time. Communication between pilots were also possible. What are you talking about.? In 1941 during battle of britain they already were able to communicate, base would give them location of enemy who was spotted by radars. The long range, high flying guys also used compas, spedo and clock to get plases and that works in game too if you want to run it that way. Most of the navigation, in this erra, was done by compas berring and map/landmark identification. The most advanced radio navigation equipment you will find in this era is simple radio dirrection finders, Bendex, RPK and whatever the German for that stuff is. Originally posted by Disarray:What do you mean by 'keep it real'? Like using radio coms to call a base for vectoring? If that is the case then you won't find it as the equipment needed to do that kind of stuff is about 10 years in the future of the game's setting at least to it being deployed and readily available.
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