| The Germans did have radar and in many ways it was more advanced than the British systems.
What they did not have an answer to was the British integrated air defence systems which received information from both radar and ground observers and sent directions to the fighters.
And of course radar was mainly useful for defence. It was not any use to attacking bomber formations. The Germans did have some fairly advance beam guidance systems, which they used to good effect during the blitz, but these systems were not decisive on their own, because the Luftwaffe, only designed to be a tactical airforce, lacked the capacity to deliver really heavy raids of the type later delivered by the RAF Bomber Command main force. And for that matter RAF bombing was not a decisive factor as it turned out.
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Angie
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