I was wondering what the bulb is on the halifax bomber, I did some research (wikipedia). It’s an radar that was retrofitted on what i could find only one halifax serial number V9977 and that one crashed in 1942.
I was wondering if the radar could be used in the game, if it wouldnt be used it should get deleted from the flight model completely as it is only found on one test-bed for the radar that crashed.
H2S ground scanning radar - first of its type. Could differentiate coastlines and sometimes rivers, but not much more than that…
This picture is a Halifax installation from that page:
H2S.
V9977 was only the test aircraft, the radar went on to widespread use finally being retired in Mk.IX form in the 1990s.
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Ohh okay, the wikipedia article didnt seem to have much information of its use on the halifax (edit i found the part about the H2S and i was wrong it was used in the mk III standardly, i just didnt see the part in the article at first)
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Yeah the start of the article was kinda misleading as it seemed like the only halifax with the H2S was the test bed
Some other bombers like the lancaster(French in wt) do also have those radars installed
The H2x was a improved version of the H2s these radars were mainly used for navigation and blind bombing (this is called oboe)
With the Fishpond modification it could detect aircraft approaching the bomber.