Title :
The W??rzburg radar equipment from the Bruneval raid
Author_Institution :
Dept. of RF Sensors, Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
The Bruneval Raid (Operation BITING), which took place on the night of 27/28 February 1942, was a British WW2 operation by the newly formed Parachute Regiment against a German radar station on the north coast of France. The story has been told in many places: for example in R.V. Jones´s book Most Secret War as well as in several other books and websites.
Keywords :
military equipment; parachutes; radar equipment; British WW2 operation; Bruneval raid; France; Wurzburg radar equipment; operation BITING; parachute regiment; Electron tubes; History; Military aircraft; Radar antennas; Radar countermeasures; Radar cross-sections;
Journal_Title :
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAES.2013.130124
