They were also attempting to bomb those facilities at night so the RAF wouldn't be able to immediately shoot Nazi planes out of the sky with AA. The problem was that the UK by mid 1940 had fully functioning RDF (range and detection finding radar) and were catching sight of incoming Nazi bombers even at night. German radar systems at this point I think were only installed on things like battleships, and furthermore Germany didn't even know the UK had radar technology. This was only like 5 years into radar existing in the first place. So they had a poor understanding of why their bombers were getting shot so much at night.
So yeah, the Germans were bombing completely blind most of the time.
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They were also attempting to bomb those facilities at night so the RAF wouldn't be able to immediately shoot Nazi planes out of the sky with AA. The problem was that the UK by mid 1940 had fully functioning RDF (range and detection finding radar) and were catching sight of incoming Nazi bombers even at night. German radar systems at this point I think were only installed on things like battleships, and furthermore Germany didn't even know the UK had radar technology. This was only like 5 years into radar existing in the first place. So they had a poor understanding of why their bombers were getting shot so much at night.
So yeah, the Germans were bombing completely blind most of the time.
that's where the carrots make you see in the dark thing comes from iirc
WWII era successful trolling, that. :troll:
The Germans had ground radar in 1938 (Freya) but they didn’t really integrate it into their command and control until they were on the defensive.