Technology and Operations
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RE: Allied Infra-red technology?/Metox Deception
Posted by:
Steve Cooper
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Date: August 24, 2000 08:04PM
It will come as a suprise to Sir James Hugh Wharton that the Metrox detector didn't exist, seeing as he developed it. He is retired from RCA now but still living in Indianapolis. It was developed near the end of the war and the Germans soon learned to better shield their Local Occilator, perhaps from the previouslly mentioned pilot. That defeated the technique, but the British did use it for a while.