SENSATIONAL ACCURACY
SPOTTING ENEMY GUNS BY RADAR NIGHT VEHICLE TRAFFIC ALSO DETECTED (Rec. 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 11. Major-general H. C. Ingles, Army Chief Signal Corps Officer, disclosed that the sensationally accurate spotting of enemy gun positions to ranges of more than five miles was accomplished during the war through radar detection of artillery and mortar projectiles. Major-general Ingles said countermortar radar obtained accurate oscilloscope bearings of the upward and downward path of an enemy projectile and the entire trajeotory was plotted. From those, bearings were extended geometrically to indicate the gun's exact location. This method made it possible to spot a hidden gun position five miles away with an error of loss than 60 yards. Major-general Ingles said specially designed radar was. used to detect enemy night traffic and had the uncanny faculty of being able to track all moving objects in the area covered by the beam. Vehicular targets were detected as far as 16 miles distant, while individual soldiers could be spotted three miles away.
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Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 5
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168SENSATIONAL ACCURACY Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 5
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