List of World War II electronic warfare equipment
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List of World War II electronic warfare equipment and code words
- Airborne Cigar (A.B.C.) - Jamming transmitter carried by No. 101 Sqn Lancasters using 8th crew member to monitor and then jam German nightfighter frequencies
- Berlin - German night fighter radar, introduced April 1945, centrimetic radar (9 cm)
- Boozer - Fighter radar early warning device fitted to British bombers
- Cigar (later "Ground Cigar") - Earlier ground-based version of Airborne Cigar
- Corona - 100 Group radio transmissions to German fighters designed to confuse German counter-attacks
- Chain Home radar - British land based radar used during the Battle of Britain
- Düppel - German word for Window
- Fishpond - British early warning radar against fighters, fitted early 1944 to some bombers
- Flensburg - German radar device fitted to night fighters that detected British Monica transmissions
- Freya - German ground based air search radar
- Gardening - RAF operations dropping mines in strategic sea lanes, usually at the request of the CoS Naval Liaison Officer based at High Wycombe. As a spinoff, Bletchley Park cryptanalysts used German reports of gardening activities to obtain decryption information on Enigma transimissions
- G-H - British radio navigation system used for blind bombing
- GEE - British radio navigation system forerunner of LORAN
- H2S - British ground mapping radar to see target at night and through cloud cover
- H2X - American ground mapping radar, development of British H2S
- Himmelbett - German controlled night fighter method
- Huff-Duff - Allied HF/DF High Frequency Direction Finding
- Jostle - Extremely powerful airborne jamming transmitter carried in sealed bombbays of 100 Group Fortresses
- Knickebein - German dual beam radar navigation aid, used early 1940
- Lichtenstein - German night fighter radar, introduced 1941/1942
- Lorenz - Germans blind-landing aid
- LORAN - American navigation aid
- Mandrel - No. 100 Group RAF swamping of Freya and Würzburg radar
- Monica - Fighter radar early warning device fitted to British bombers
- Naxos - German H2S detection and homing device
- Neptun - German night fighter radar, introduced mid/late 1944
- Newhaven - Target marking blind using H2S then with visual backup marking
- Oboe - British twin beam navigation system, similar to Knickebein
- Paramatta - target marking by blind dropped ground markers - prefixed with 'musical' when Oboe guided
- Perfectos - Device carried by night fighting Mosquito's for homing-in on German nightfighter radar transmissions/triggering IFF
- Piperack - Airborne jamming transmitter carried by a lead aircraft that produced a cone of jamming behind it within which the following bomber stream could shelter
- Razzles - air dropped incendaries for starting crop and forest fires
- Schräge Musik - upward pointing cannon fitted to German night fighters from 1943 to exploit a blind spot on allied bombers, proved very effective.
- Seetakt - A Shipborne radar developed in the 1930s and used by the German Navy, later improved into Freya air search radar.
- Serrate- Allied Lichtenstein detection and homing device, used in night fighter to track down German night fighters with Lichtenstein radar
- Tinsel - British technique of feeding amplified engine noise via radio onto German night fighter frequencies to hinder them.
- Village Inn - AGLT - British radar-aimed rear turret fitted to some Lancasters in 1944
- Wanganui - Target marking by blind dropped sky markers - prefixed with 'musical' when Oboe guided
- Window - strips of aluminium foil dropped to flood German radar and radar operated anti aircraft guns and searchlights
- Würzburg - German ground based air search radar, very accurate and often used to direct FlaK
- Wilde Sau (Wild Boar) - Freelance night fighters, ie not parked round a visual beacon like the Zahme Sau (Tame Boar) fighters
- X-Gerät, Y-Gerät - German beam guided blind bombing system
- Zahme Sau (Tame Boar) - German tactic of guiding a night fighter 'parked' round a visual beacon, onto the incoming bomber stream by radar assisted ground commentary
See also
- Glossary of WWII German military terms
- Kammhuber Line, German radar controlled air defense system
- Battle of the beams
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