@KtunaxaAmerika @crusaderproject @bermicourt @sommecourt @NavalAirHistory @JanTattenberg @JeffCRutherford @mike_bechthold @AlexFitzBlack @GeorgeMCR01 @garius >>Would y’all say that Rommel is overrated?
No...but context is needed to understand the nature of his victories in North Africa.
German mobile forces were operating with a superior signals system based on near vertical incident skywave (NVIS) transmission.
See photos:
No...but context is needed to understand the nature of his victories in North Africa.
German mobile forces were operating with a superior signals system based on near vertical incident skywave (NVIS) transmission.
See photos:
@KtunaxaAmerika @crusaderproject @bermicourt @sommecourt @NavalAirHistory @JanTattenberg @JeffCRutherford @mike_bechthold @AlexFitzBlack @GeorgeMCR01 @garius Basically a vehicle with an NVIS antenna and a high frequency radio could communicate reliably with another such vehicle out to 200 km.
This enabled the Germans to coordinate by radio at much longer distances than the 8th Army who did not use similar signals gear.
This enabled the Germans to coordinate by radio at much longer distances than the 8th Army who did not use similar signals gear.
@KtunaxaAmerika @crusaderproject @bermicourt @sommecourt @NavalAirHistory @JanTattenberg @JeffCRutherford @mike_bechthold @AlexFitzBlack @GeorgeMCR01 @garius That superior mobile operations radio range from NVIS was also tied into a really effective signals intelligence system that informed German commanders of Allied dispositions.
German armored car recon units could be steered to allied ground units SIGINT.
weaponsandwarfare.com/2020/08/13/ger…
German armored car recon units could be steered to allied ground units SIGINT.
weaponsandwarfare.com/2020/08/13/ger…
@KtunaxaAmerika @crusaderproject @bermicourt @sommecourt @NavalAirHistory @JanTattenberg @JeffCRutherford @mike_bechthold @AlexFitzBlack @GeorgeMCR01 @garius It was not until the British victory in Operation Crusader, when a British Army unit over ran Rommel's mobile sigint unit, did the Allies really understand what Rommel was doing to them.
It was right up there with seizing an Ultra machine off a U-boat in strategic importance.
It was right up there with seizing an Ultra machine off a U-boat in strategic importance.
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