Woo hoo !!! I was in the process of making a request for some additional radar objects and did a great deal of research for it.
looks like we can use stuff we already have with those seen to recreate German positions like this (though some taller sandbag stacks would be nice);
In HFSX (I think-hard to keep up with it), we appear to already have the small Wurzberg dish, BUT it is elevated well into the air for placement on the large flak tower.
Note that it's in one of the cement pedastal mounts, in the upper left of the screen. It would be a simple start, in this mod at least, to make a version of teh same pedastal mounted wurzberg on the ground. I was testing some new stuff and wanted to see how it looked.
Found a shot of a small towed wzbg folded up. This is so cool.
This is the common type of radar SCR-271-D-600 used in the early war yrs, similar to the one at Pearl Harbor on the mountain, but that one didn't have a huge tower. I can improvise one of the beacon objects that looks very similar to simulate it, for now.
I forget which number object this is, but it looks close.
This is the one we have in the sim already. There was nver any info about it, but I think I found what it's based on; a mid to late war radar, also used from 43 into the 50s. It had a 120 mile range.
It's an AN-TPS-1B American search radar, or at least it looks a bit like it, though the antennae is a bit different.
This is the truck mounted version (that would be cool actually). In the background is an SCR-584 that came out in 44.
And this early war US radar is an odd version of the SCR-268. Very common well into the war.
I don't think those sandbags are gonna do much good.
And one in use on Guadalcanal, I assume at Henderson or a hill nearby.
And this is the afore mentioned SCR-584 of 1944, which was used well into the 50s in several forms, trailers, trucks, towers, and a neat little tripod.
Actually, most of those are just suggestions, as what I'm really requesting is just that the pedastal mounted Wzbg be available mounted on the ground, in the standard sim as well as the mods. Thanx for all the work you guys do. Im gonna put some of the above radars in the screenshots U guys posted to good use when they show up, as they can stand in for equipment of various countries into the 50s.
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