Early warning radar deployed by Germany during World War II
Freya
A 1941 RAF PRU photograph of the two Freyas at Auderville
Country of origin
Germany
Introduced
1939
No. built
1,000+
Type
Early warning radar
PRF
500 per second
Pulsewidth
2–3μs
Range
200 kilometres (120 mi)
Azimuth
360°
Power
20 kW
Other Names
Funkmessgerät 80 (FuMG 80)
Freya was an early warning radar deployed by Germany during World War II; it was named after the Norse goddess Freyja. During the war, over a thousand stations were built. A naval version operating on a slightly different wavelength was also developed as the Seetakt.
Freya was an early warning radar deployed by Germany during World War II; it was named after the Norse goddess Freyja. During the war, over a thousand...
operated several radar-equipped night fighter guide ships (Nachtjagdleitschiffe), including the NJL Togo. which was equipped with a Freyaradar for early warning...
installed in Luftwaffe aircraft starting in 1941 in order to allow German Freyaradar stations to identify them as friendly. The system was also used as a...
the Freya, this was a ground-based radar operating around 2.4 m (125 MHz) with 15-kW peak power giving a range of some 130 km. The basic Freyaradar was...
in Germany on www.100-jahre-radar.de, from a lecture of Dr. Wolfgang Holpp, EADS, 2004 "Early German radars: SEETAKT, FREYA, WUERZBURG". Archived from...
railroad flatcars to produce a mobile Flak radar system. Version G had the 2.4-meter antenna and electronics from a Freya installed. The antenna dipoles were...
(canopy bed) zone, consisting of a Freyaradar with a range of about 100 km, a "master searchlight" directed by the radar, and a number of manually directed...
Germany in 1940. It was tuned to the low-VHF band at 125 MHz used by the Freyaradar, and an adaptor was used with the low-UHF-banded 550–580 MHz used by...
Würzburg radars, with a range of about 30 km (19 mi). Unlike the early-warning Freyaradar, Würzburgs were accurate (and complex) tracking radars. One would...
fellow naval aviator. The German radar installations causing the havoc with the British bombers are historical. The Freyaradar that Harald investigates was...
The history of radar (where radar stands for radio detection and ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed...
early warning radar built by Germany in the latter days of World War II. Developed by the GEMA company, it consisted of six or eight Freya antenna arrays...
for the officers. Würzburg radar units, priority targets for the Allies, were disguised where possible. The smaller Freyaradar was less visible. However...
The Wasserman radar was an early-warning radar built by Germany during World War II. The radar was a development of FuMG 80 Freya and was operated during...
sighting for, a different naval battery using range finding equipment and Freyaradar mounted on the roof of each tower. Seeko-Ki used a grid system to indicate...
to detect the British Monica tail warning radar transmissions. Freya – German ground based air search radar. G–H – British radio navigation system used...
strong AA defence being well occupied. At its primary site were four radars, two Freya FuMG and two Würzburg FuSE, and at its ancillary a single Wasserman...
by Flg. Off. W. K. Manifould, took the first clear photographs of a Freyaradar. In retaliation for an incident six days earlier, when a Sgt Parrot failed...
table was a Freyaradar and two Würzburg-Riese radars. Freyaradars would pick up and track the bombing raids and an attached Würzburg radar would then...
fighter system. Using Freyaradar, they could bring interceptors within 500 m (550 yd) of enemy aircraft. Diehl had helped develop radar controlled defences...
deliberately selected a frequency close to that of their ground-based Freyaradar sets, in the hopes that these sources would swamp any wide-band receiver...
Würzburg. The Würzburg radar device consisted of a parabolic antenna about 10 ft (3 m) in diameter, which worked in conjunction with Freya to locate British...
losses. The air operation is misunderstood in most accounts. The German Freyaradar stations at Belgorod and Kharkov in 1943 had only picked up Soviet air...
The success of these raids was in part because the Germans had few Freyaradar stations set up in France, so that air defences of the French harbours...