Disambiguation evidence for Window radar countermeasures via surface form

"Window (radar countermeasures)"


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Predicate Object
alsoKnownAs Düppel
alsoKnownAs chaff
category World War II British inventions
category aerial warfare tactics
category military deception techniques
classifiedStatus highly secret before first use
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
deploymentMethod dropped from aircraft
designedToCounter airborne interception radar
designedToCounter ground-based radar
developedBy Royal Air Force
developmentContext British radar and electronic warfare research
effect create false radar echoes
effect mask real aircraft positions
era World War II era
firstMajorUse Operation Gomorrah
firstMajorUseConflict bombing of Hamburg
surface form: Allied bombing of Hamburg
firstMajorUseLocation Hamburg
influenced modern electronic countermeasures
influenced postwar chaff techniques
instanceOf electronic warfare technique
instanceOf military technology
instanceOf radar countermeasure
introducedInYear 1943
madeOf aluminium foil strips
madeOf metallic strips
madeOf metallised paper strips
operationalUse night bombing operations
operationalUse strategic bombing raids over Germany
principleOfOperation creation of radar clutter
principleOfOperation radar signal reflection
purpose confuse enemy radar
purpose protect Allied aircraft
reasonForSecrecy fear enemy would copy the technique
relatedTo electronic countermeasures
relatedTo radar deception
relatedTo radar jamming
tacticalEffect complicated enemy fighter interception
tacticalEffect reduced accuracy of enemy anti-aircraft fire
usedAgainst German radar
usedBy Allied forces
usedBy Royal Air Force Bomber Command
usedBy Royal Navy
usedBy United States Army Air Forces
usedDuring World War II
usedInTheater European Theater of Operations, United States Army
surface form: European Theater of Operations
usedInTheater Mediterranean Theater of Operations