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70 years ago we had RADAR.

• dylan604 6y ago
  RADAR 70 years ago mistook an incoming attack on Pearl Harbor as a flock of birds (of course there's conspiracy theories about it too). The 70 years ago tech wasn't that good, and the operators interpretation of that data was even worse.
  • bigbubba 6y ago
    Afaik the men manning that radar station confused the Japanese planes with a formation of B-17s that were scheduled to arrive from approximately that direction, not birds.
    • dylan604 6y ago
      You may be right. I'm probably mixing stories of issues with early radar.
  • mhh__ 6y ago
    RADAR 80 years also kept Britain in the war and helped win the battle of Britain.
  • taneq 6y ago
    I thought they knew the attack was coming due to breaking Purple but couldn't move the ships out because it'd tip their hand that they could read the Japanese transmissions?