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Nanond's avatar

Guess I'm a weirdo too finding this reading about SAM super interesting.

Thanks for another great read.

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The story about the Egyptian AD site reminds me of a similar incident in the Battle of Britain, when the Germans managed to knock out one of huge British radar positions by hitting its electrical substation. A mobile emitter was quickly set up by the RAF, and even though it lacked the range and sensitivity of the original array, the Germans picked up its emmissions and concluded their attacks on large antennae of the Chain Home radar are not effective. They decided not to press on with the attacks on British radars, not knowing that there actually was a hole in British radar system, and that continued attacks might succeed in degrading the entire system enough to make it useless.

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