âHow is the RAF so incredibly good at spotting German planes at night and in the fog?â
donât say radar donât say radar donât say radar âummm yes⊠its carrots. Carrots, lots of carrots, thatâs it! Its because they⊠um⊠improve eyesight.â
Itâs funny that for an âaverageâ person at that time a carrot theory was satisfying enough to stop looking for other explanation, ie technology based.
Itâs not that it was a satisfying theory, itâs that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.
RADAR was one of those inventions that they thought was completely revolutionary, and it was, but was far less âuniqueâ than the creators originally believed.
The large air and naval search arrays all over southern England had been spotted by the Germans even before the war and they accurately worked out what they were for and reverse engineered them purely from reconnaissance photographs.
The special thing about the RAF at the time was that theyâd managed to make units small enough to fit on board planed which was the big advantage they hid as being carrots.
Funny story, so convinced were the British that the concept of RADAR couldnât have been copied by Germany that when they surveyed the Graf Spee while in dock at Montevideo, with the RADAR antennas, identical to those on British and American ships clearly visible they still didnât believe the Germans could develop the technology.
