- of the
antennas to
provide much
greater accuracy at long range,
named Knickebein and X-Gerät.
These were used
during the
early stages of "The Blitz" with...
-
first of
these was a
radio navigation system which the
Germans called Knickebein. This, as
Jones soon determined, was a
development of the
Lorenz blind...
- was used to
guide the
bombers on
missions over Britain,
under the name
Knickebein and X-Gerät. Beam
navigation provides a
single line in space,
making it...
-
Luftwaffe developed radio navigation devices and
relied on
three systems:
Knickebein (Crooked Leg), X-Gerät (X-Device), and Y-Gerät (Y-Device). This led the...
- the
night were
three Knickebein and
Sonne stations. They were also
afforded lux
buoys dropped in the Channel. The use of
Knickebein at this
point was questioned...
- waves. It was
during the
summer of 1940 that
Dowding first learned of the
Knickebein (literally "dog-leg")
radio beam system,
which guided Luftwaffe bombers...
-
Kleve was the site of one of the two
radio wave
stations that
served the
Knickebein aircraft navigation system.
Luftwaffe bombers used
radio beams from Kleve...
- new
bombers had to be dive bombers, and led to the
development of the
Knickebein system for
night time navigation.
Priority was
given to
producing large...
- when to drop bombs.
Several different techniques were tried,
including Knickebein, X-Gerät and Y-Gerät (Wotan).
These provided impressive accuracy—British...
-
jamming against the
German radio-beam
navigations systems (X-Verfahren and
Knickebein,
camouflage and
decoy techniques ("Starfish sites") were built, mainly...
