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Star Wars is full of strange anachronisms like using manually targeted heavy weapons (so that they cannot hit a moving target). Even WW2 ack-ack used radar to
by skookumchuck 8y ago
Star Wars is full of strange anachronisms like using manually targeted heavy weapons (so that they cannot hit a moving target).
Even WW2 ack-ack used radar to double their effectiveness. (The US did, the Japanese and German radar did not, which left them with a disastrous disadvantage.)
- captain_perl 8y agoFYI: Ships have always had accurate azimuth targeting, but not range (distance.) Stationary radar (ships, submarines, planes) in WW2 greatly helped the USA and Britain, but there's some twists most people don't know about. The ship-borne radar range of about 70 miles usually did not give enough time to scramble fighters to altitude to be effective in the Midway-era, for example. US submarines were actually able to sink Japanese ships using radar exclusively, without ever visually seeing the target. The USA had "VT code-word" shells with radar proximity fuses that were 5x more effective than other shells. They were used as a last resort to keep them Top Secret. So they were used in tough battles like Sicily and Okinawa, and over ocean (the Marianas turkey shoot and the kamikaze era.)