Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "The Battle of the North Cape - Ice and Fire at Sea" video.

Hoa Tattis Right from the start, the UK and US made a deal: the UK would totally concentrate their talents on RADAR; the US would concentrate its talents on jamming Radar. So the British would send over their latest stuff to the US ( AT&T, Bell Labs and MIT) so that the US could figure out a way to jamb the latest British creation. It was the buddy-system at a national scale. So, even if a given set was built in the USA, if it was a radar set, it was a knock-off of a British design. British radar jammers were always knock-offs of the USA team. Combined, the twins out tech'd the Krauts. BTW, the famous cavity magnetron was created as the result of research fusion. The British had read a professional paper out of Stanford that caused them to fuse their existing stuff with ideas from that paper. When their crude prototype was first fired up -- they were ASTOUNDED as to just what they'd discovered. It resulted in a change in what the British realized was possible in the higher frequency bands. Their prior working theories did not allow for such a scheme to work. THIS is why the Germans didn't pick up on this line of discovery. (Yes, the magnetron was a shot in the dark.)
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Hoa Tattis Famously, the USA bought the British 105mm rifle for our M-60 series tanks. The USA never really spent large to even 'work on the problem' of a next generation anti-tank gun. (The US was already 'missile crazy' in the 1950s -- note the F-4 Phantom, etc., going up without guns. So the Big Bucks were going into anti-tank missiles that figured to be both smart and to outrange any tank cannon. ) BAE is actually a catch-all company. It's an amalgamation of high tech British (military electronics) stuff. It's unique. The US simply will not permit any significant support component to be manufactured overseas. All technological imports must be by license. [ The USA bought Italian pistols -- but the deal was that a new plant located inside the US would have to be set-up. And this was just for side-arms. ] So when the US bought advanced British military arts, they were compelled to set up production inside the US. American law did not require that the creators give up ownership. So, as the years went by, the British ended up with more than a few -- this or that -- military production facilities located in the US. Such a tight relationship was pretty unique. ONLY long-term US Allies would even be considered for such a buddy relationship. But Britain was at the top of the list. We can start with the F-35 fighter. Britain has a totally unique buddy relationship in its design... even though other NATO nations are in the picture. What's true for the F-35 -- and quite public -- is just as true for other (military electronics) going all the way back to WWII and the Original Deal that I posted above. This buddy relationship is also the cornerstone of the Five-Eyes scheme. At its foundation is military electronics -- for code breaking. The British tackled Enigma, the US broke Purple. It's with irony that Purple Machines (they looked like typewriters) were of primary utility to London -- not Washington. The Baron would listen for hours to Adolf winding off, and then the Baron would send massive Purple text to Tokyo spilling the beans. This was how a diplomatic code ended up with staggering amounts of strategic military intelligence. One such transmission told the West that Patton could NEVER be allowed to head Overlord's D-Day landings. For that's what Adolf assumed would HAVE to be true. He told the Baron that such a revelation would cause him to release everything to crush Patton. Patton never knew why he'd been sidelined -- and the general public still does not know this, either. One aside: Britain and America were so tight after WWII that America adopted Britain's idea -- which was NATO. Yeah, it was dreamt up by Whitehall. London then pitched it to Truman, and both powers then lobbied France, et. al to jump on board. And who could say no? The US had the Bomb. Of interest to us historians, it was London that did most of the selling. From Norway, to Denmark, to Holland, these nations had governments in exile -- in London during the war. So Britain knew all of the players going way back. I forget where I read it, but BAE admitted that they made more money dealing within the US than anywhere else in the financial press. Think about that. Much of their stuff has to be in Black Programs. Natch. Radar, back in the day, was totally Black, too.
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Hoa Tattis That deal was driven by the British. The USA simply said, fine, you're the teacher. Now if the Brits want to jamb a Nazi radar set, that's actually outside "The Deal." One example: the USAAF tested a jamming scheme against the brand-new VT fuse. IIRC, the concept came from England -- but had to be perfected in the USA. (Mass production of its electronics was an even bigger headache than getting prototypes to work. A new generation of even tinier radio tubes was required.) Ike was never told that his own air force had totally solved the VT threat to our bombers. This is why he held back the VT fuse until 12-18-44 -- 48-hours into the Nazi counter-attack. Had the VT been used from D-Day onward, there is no doubt that the Anglo-Allies would've been in Berlin by Christmas. It was the ultimate morale breaker. The US simply ceded the Radar game to the English -- and without shame. Lastly, the British STILL have a major footprint in radar electronics in the USA. They scratch our back; we scratch theirs.
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