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England Was Almost Destroyed By Radio Waves – Lessons from History

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 28 2019, @09:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the signals-in-the-aether dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for ErnestTBass

In 1940, Britain had retreated back to their island fortress after being throttled in mainland Europe by invading Nazis. They would hide behind the sea and hope that their navy and air force could stop the possible German invasion of their island.

As the Battle of Britain raged on, the German and British air forces went head to head. Something strange happened, the Germans pulled of[sic] a series of highly effective night bombing raids. It's strange because night bombing was incredibly ineffective for the most part.

[...] This German bombing was much more effective than what the British could do at night. As a matter of fact, it was more accurate than what typical bombing could do in the day time.

Source: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/england-was-almost-destroyed-by-radio-waves-df70830e8593

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  • (Score: 4, Disagree) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 29 2019, @01:50AM (3 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 29 2019, @01:50AM (#836125) Homepage Journal

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by kazzie on Monday April 29 2019, @08:55AM

    by kazzie (5309) on Monday April 29 2019, @08:55AM (#836213)

    Hm... are you the first guy or the second guy?

  • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Monday April 29 2019, @05:05PM (1 child)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Monday April 29 2019, @05:05PM (#836302)

    Another poster linked to an article about Hulsmeyer.

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    Please accept my apologies.

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    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 29 2019, @06:13PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 29 2019, @06:13PM (#836334) Homepage Journal

      That's O.K. That's O.K. And, thank you. Because your Link has so many things I can tell folks. When I show them my fabulous Tesla Model S!!