Picking up almost where World War II left off, the Cold War waged on for ... As we passed the road entrance to this disused Soviet radar site, the open gate offered a tantalising invitation.

During World War II, battles were won by the side that was first to spot enemy airplanes, ships, or submarines. To give the Allies an edge, British and American scientists developed radar ...

A daring British paratrooper who was killed while stealing a German radar in World War II has been honoured in ... parts of a state-of-the-art radar dish. Their exploits were later immortalised ...

Before the invention of radar during World War II, incoming enemy warplanes were ... made of concrete and shaped like a dish or a curved wall, known as an “acoustic mirror.” ...

Forged in the fighting of World War II, the cavity magnetron was the heart of radar signals used to identify attacking German forces. The magnetron itself was truly an international effort ...

The entry is just a summary. Like you, I am busy writing up my father's WW2 story for posterity. I have spent quite a lot of my life on modern radar display systems but I hadn't realised the radar ...

An abandoned British WW2 radar station that saved numerous lives has found itself at the heart of new proposals to build new homes. Constructed in 1943, the former Gin Head station played a ...

Within seconds, a relentless gale had stripped a radar dish of its huge Teflon-coated protective dome. The radar had arrived just six months earlier, the high-tech jewel of a joint U.S.-Norwegian ...