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    Seetakt was a shipborne radar developed in the 1930s and used by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. It is the first naval radar to enter...
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    operating on a slightly different wavelength was also developed as the Seetakt. First tests of what would become the "Freya" were conducted in early 1937...
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    torpedoes. Both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were equipped with two sets of Seetakt radar. One was mounted on the forward gun director, which was located on...
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    eventually collaborating with Lorenz on the development of the Freya and Seetakt systems. By the spring of 1935, GEMA's successes made it clear to Runge...
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    103 officers 1,962 enlisted men Sensors and processing systems FuMO 23 Seetakt radar Hydrophone Armament 8 × 38 cm (15 in) SK C/34 (4 × 2) 12 × 15 cm...
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  • antenna from a Wurzburg combined with a 9 cm "Berlin" unit and mounted on a Seetakt base optimized for sea search rather than air search. Sources differ on...
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    relied on the Seetakt radar system. Scientists from the Telecommunications Research Establishment discovered that the resolution of the Seetakt was about...
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    Kriegsmarine against enemy air raids. The Kriegsmarine also manned the Seetakt sea radars on the coasts. At the beginning of World War II, on 1 September...
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    (5.5 in) thick faces and 80 mm thick sides. In Autumn 1937 a FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" set radar operating on a Wavelength of 80 cm was installed; in 1942, a...
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  • Panzer VIII Maus Freya radar Egon [de] Würzburg radar FuG 25a Erstling Seetakt radar Flensburg radar detector Panzergranate 39 List of Sd.Kfz. designations...
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    on the 9th, Gneisenau located the British battlecruiser Renown with her Seetakt radar; the call to battle stations rang out on both Gneisenau and Scharnhorst...
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    also installed. Before the end of the war, one ship, Oriani had a German Seetakt radar and an additional 20 mm cannon. All four ships were built by O.T...
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    German battleship was struck twice, with one shell destroying the forward Seetakt radar controls and leaving Scharnhorst virtually blind in a mounting snowstorm...
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    Spee was the first German warship to be equipped with radar. A FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" set was mounted on the foretop range finder. Admiral Graf Spee's primary...
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    radar nomenclature system around 1943. It was derived from the earlier Seetakt search radar and had an antenna 2 m × 4 m (6 ft 7 in × 13 ft 1 in) in size...
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  • and 617 Squadrons to deceive German Seetakt coastal radar during Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable. Seetakt – a shipborne radar developed in the...
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    invasion. A few weeks before D-Day, captured German Würzburg, Freya, and Seetakt radars (types used by the Germans defending the French coast), were moved...
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  • 1944-03-10 but were not taken into use during the war. m/45 Maija FuMO 1 Seetakt  Germany Maritime surveillance radar 4 units 3 arrived in December 1943...
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    Tantallon Castle in Scotland, using captured German Würzburg, Freya, and Seetakt radars. A particularly notable series of attacks caused the disabling and...
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  • developed by GEMA was the 2.5 m (120 MHz) Seetakt. Throughout the war, GEMA provided a wide variety of Seetakt sets, mainly for ships but also for several...
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    develop similar systems operating around 50 cm (500 MHz). These became the Seetakt for the Kriegsmarine and the Freya for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)...
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    two ships encountered the British battlecruiser HMS Renown. Gneisenau's Seetakt radar picked up a radar contact at 04:30, which prompted the crews of both...
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  • and developed the technology into two applications. For naval use, the Seetakt system used a wavelength of 80 cm. A land based version at 120 cm wavelength...
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    Admiral Scheer in order to give her a Quartz spare part for her defective Seetakt radar. U-124 drew a blank on her fifth sortie, failing to destroy a single...
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  • also installed. Before the end of the war, one ship, Oriani, had German Seetakt radar and additional 20 mm cannon. The four Orianis operated as fleet escorts...
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  • on the morning of Sunday 3 December 1939 by the use of its FMG G(gO) "Seetakt" Radar the Graf Spee made contact with the Tairoa which was under the command...
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    including a windowless underground floor and the walled top deck where a Seetakt radar was installed. The land-side entrance is on the third level. Examples...
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  • development of the system. The basic DeTe eventually evolved into the Seetakt for the Kriegsmarine and the Freya for the Luftwaffe (German Air Force);...
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    out of action. Scharnhorst was unaware of Duke of York because her own Seetakt radar had been damaged. Hits from Duke of York's 14-inch guns slowed her...
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  • forces of its existence. GEMA’s product, an early-warning system code named Seetakt, was eventually demonstrated to the Luftwaffe General Staff in November...
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