How One Electrician's "Crazy" Radar Tweak Made Destroyers Spot U-Boats 40 Miles Out In Darkness скачать в хорошем качестве

How One Electrician's "Crazy" Radar Tweak Made Destroyers Spot U-Boats 40 Miles Out In Darkness

September fourteenth, nineteen forty-three, aboard USS England, somewhere in the North Atlantic. Chief Electrician's Mate Robert Mitchell stared at the flickering radar scope in the cramped electronics compartment. The SC-2 surface search radar had been behaving erratically for three days, producing ghost contacts that disappeared before fire control could acquire them. The destroyer escort's captain, Lieutenant Commander Walton Pendleton, had threatened to declare the entire system non-operational. Mitchell had served in the Navy for eleven years, the last four working exclusively with radar systems. He understood the temperamental nature of the cavity magnetrons that generated the radar pulses, the sensitivity of the receiver circuits, and the interference patterns that plagued early radar installations. But tonight, watching the scope flicker and fade, an idea struck him that conventional training said was impossible.