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 service, and among the earliest radars of any sort. It provided range measurements with an accuracy on the order of 50 metres (160 ft), more than enough for gunnery. Its angle accuracy was not very good, but the development of lobe switching specifically for this radar provided about 1 degree accuracy, not enough to directly lay the guns, but still useful for initial plotting and aiding the optical spotters find their target.
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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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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...
German battleship was struck twice, with one shell destroying the forward Seetakt radar controls and leaving Scharnhorst virtually blind in a mounting snowstorm...
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...
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...
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...
and 617 Squadrons to deceive German Seetakt coastal radar during Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable. Seetakt – a shipborne radar developed in the...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
forces of its existence. GEMA’s product, an early-warning system code named Seetakt, was eventually demonstrated to the Luftwaffe General Staff in November...
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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