Скачать или смотреть Japanese Plans Were Built on Night and Weather — Then LORAN and CIC Crushed Them

This episode explains how one of Imperial Japan’s oldest assumptions broke down in the final phase of the Pacific War. Japanese planners had long counted on darkness, rain belts, and radio silence to move ships and launch strikes without being seen. By 1943, the U.S. Navy had removed that advantage. Surface-search radar, air-search radar, and fully developed Combat Information Centers let American carriers, cruisers, and destroyers build a complete tactical picture at night. Fighter directors could talk pilots onto incoming raids, and radar-directed guns could engage targets that Japanese crews believed were still concealed. Long-range radio navigation such as LORAN helped U.S. forces stay on station in bad weather so radar and CIC were always available. The result in 1944–1945, from the Philippines to Okinawa, was a battlespace where Japan could no longer rely on night or storms to hide. It is a story of electronics defeating doctrine.
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