Seetakt radar
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The shipborne Seetakt radar was develped in the 1930s and was used by the German Navy during World War II.
In Germany during the late 1920s, Hans Hollmann began working in the field of microwaves, which were to later become the basis of almost all radar systems. In 1935 he published Physics and Technique of Ultrashort Waves, which was picked up by researchers around the world. At the time he had been most interested in their use for communications, but he and his partner Hans-Karl von Willisen had also worked on radar-like systems.
In 1928 Hollmann, von Willisen and Paul-Günther Erbslöh started a company called GEMA. In the autumn of 1934, GEMA, built the first commercial radar system for detecting ships. Operating in the 50 cm range it could detect ships up to 10 km away. This device was similar in purpose to Huelsmeyer's earlier system, and like it did not provide range information.
In the summer of 1935 a pulse radar was developed with which they could spot the ship the SMS Königsberg 8 km away, with an accuracy of up to 50 m, enough for gun-laying. The same system could also detect an aircraft at 500 m altitude at a distance of 28 km. The military implications were not lost this time around, and construction of land and sea-based versions took place as Freya radar' and Seetakt.
See also
References
- [ORIGINS OF GERMAN RADAR: SEETAKT, FREYA, WUERZBURG]. There is an open source verification for this text on the home page [Greg Goebel / In The Public Domain].
- [Radar Development in Germany] on the [Radar World] website
- [The Radar War (PDF)] by Gehard Hepcke, translated into English By Hannah Liebmann on the [Radar World] website
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