From Horten Ho 229 becomes B2 Stealth Bomber?

[Franklin]

Franklin, note spelling Horten with an "e". Good thread!

Not sure what your insinuating ...

[whistlingdeath77]

[airnutz]

Franklin, note spelling Horten with an "e". Good thread!

Not sure what your insinuating ...

Ooooo...stealthy!

[bdk]

It fulfilled the 3x1000 requirements and its 20% reduction in RCS was sufficient to make the aircraft nearly impossible to intercept which would have been the death of the Chain Home radar system had enough been built since the thing Goering wanted most to use them for was to destroy the radars which he blamed for costing the Luftwaffe the Battle of Britain.

Even though the radar system was mostly inoperative during that period as I understand it.

[CAPFlyer]

Not true. There were certain stations that were damaged, but none were ever taken off the air for more than a couple of days at most. Some had limited capability for more than that due to damage to radar equipment in the huts around the towers, but the towers themselves were never damaged and thus as long as power was available and the equipment was working, the radars stayed up. The Luftwaffe only attacked the Chain Home radars for about a week in mid-August and when they were unable to do any "noticeable" damage and the RAF shifted coverage to protect the radars better, they were unable to do any more damage and thus stopped trying because the open-girder towers proved too hard to topple with level bombing and the fighters and JU-88's couldn't get through.

[bdk]

I understood that the radar system was in fact not operational for a long period, but they transmitted a signal so the Germans thought it was working. Since the Germans found it too hard to knock out, they moved on to other priorities, but their efforts had impacted the radar far more than they knew.

Just my recollection, and you know how good that is!

[CAPFlyer]

According to all sources I can find and all documentaries I've seen, none talk about the radar being down for more than a few days. All said had the Luftwaffe kept up their attacks the repair parts would have run out quickly and that they'd done more damage than they thought becuase they were operating at 50% capacity and it wasn't as accurate as what the Germans believed, but that is it. Nothing about just transmitting to fool the Germans because at the time of the BoB, the Germans didn't know what Chain Home was and didn't think that it was as important to the defense of Britain as it was because they were basing their assumptions off of what the German radar was capable of (which wasn't much). It wasn't until after the BoB that the full extent of Chain Home became apparent to the Germans, especially after they found a crashed H2X set and found out how good the airborne radar was.

[bdk]

Sounds like I need to open a book or two and do some more studying! Thank you.