ATAG's 1st Bomber Night this Weekend

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Good point!!!

Your thought above reminds me of an old saying, "Mechanical Engineers build weapons of war, Civil Engineers build targets!" LOL

Question is how to place them? I had the same problem using them as targets. They are already on the map at the historical sites. If you want to place them in the same position you either have to carefully place them "inside" the current ones or create a dopelganger effect by placing them next to them... Creating a new site is problematic as there are so many ones already on the map, chances are the new ones maybe missed for the "onmap ones"....

Originally Posted by csThor

No, since Wotan is actually a radio beam system. The theory is quite similar to the later OBOE of the RAF, meaning one station provides the general direction by directing its beam towards the target while a second beam crossed the first over the target (or up to three - pre-signal, main signal, post signal). Aircraft using this system had two special devices on board (also known as X-Gerät) and each was locked onto one of the beams. Once both devices gave a continuous sound the target area was reached and the bombs were dropped. Only KGr 100 used the X-Verfahren in 1940 while III./KG 26 used the slightly more sophisticated Y-Verfahren (based on Wotan 2 stations) from November 1940 on. The latter was more accurate and could not be jammed - at least not easily.

Wotan stations were (at least in 1940) at Julianadorp (Den Helder), Audembert, Ecalgrain (Cherbourg) and Morlaix (Brest).

Right but the Germans did have ship seeking radar in 1940? I read somewhere when the discovered the British device in Dunkirk france, they laughed at the crudeness of it... After the war the better German system was adopted and developed... Maybe I should have said German radar instead of WOTAN.... But also that it was something that the Germans misunderestimated and didnt rely upon.