Luftwaffe fighter defence organisation

Bernard/Bernadine were late war projects, and were essentially unjammable by
the Allies at that time.

v/r
Gordon

snippage of earlier stuff

....And yet another question: Was the RAF's night fighter GCI force
controlled in a similar manner to the Luftwaffe's 'Himmelbett'
fighters?

Was the success of the RAF's night fighter force compared to
Himmelbett simply due to the fact that the Luftwaffe wasn't sending
n-hundred-aircraft bomber streams over England, or was there a more
efficient structure in place?

Cheers,

Jakob

In message , Jakob
Whitfield writes
snippage of earlier stuff

...And yet another question: Was the RAF's night fighter GCI force
controlled in a similar manner to the Luftwaffe's 'Himmelbett'
fighters?

You answered your own question. GCI = Ground Controlled Interception.

Presumably the controller used the CHL radars to guide the fighters to
within a couple of miles of the target and on a chase course.

Was the success of the RAF's night fighter force compared to
Himmelbett simply due to the fact that the Luftwaffe wasn't sending
n-hundred-aircraft bomber streams over England, or was there a more
efficient structure in place?

Most accounts seem to refer to a lack of targets compared to a bomber
stream.

Mike
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M.J.Powell

"M. J. Powell" wrote in message
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In message , Jakob
Whitfield writes
snippage of earlier stuff

...And yet another question: Was the RAF's night fighter GCI force
controlled in a similar manner to the Luftwaffe's 'Himmelbett'
fighters?

You answered your own question. GCI = Ground Controlled Interception.

Presumably the controller used the CHL radars to guide the fighters to
within a couple of miles of the target and on a chase course.

No sir. CHL had no inland coverage, the GCI stations used
a variety of radars ranging from the fixed Happidromes to
mobile higher frequency radars like the type 15

http://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/gci/gci.htm

Keith

In article , Jakob
Whitfield writes
Greetings all,

As the term paper for my Systems Engineering option, I want to do a
systems comparison between Fighter Command, the Jagdwaffe, and the
Nachtjagd C^3 systems. I've been able to find a loads on Fighter
Command, but precious little on the German side that gives command
structure and organisational data. Most of the references I've got
concentrate on the aircraft used, rather than C^3. Could anyone make
any useful suggestions for books, papers, journal articles etc. that I
could use to research this?

Cheers,

Jakob

"The Other Battle, Luftwaffe Night Aces versus Bomber Command", Peter
Hinchcliffe, Airlife Publishing, UK, 1996. ISBN 1840373032.
This tracesthe development of the Nachtjagd and RAF Bomber Command, with
personal accounts of experiences by the people involved at several
levels.

HTH.
--
Peter

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