Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestone-Proposal talk:Zenit three-coordinate L-band pulsed radar, 1938/British radar developments in pulsed radar prior to 1938

Care must be taken in writing the milestone citation for the Zenit radar to avoid too broad a claim. Care must also be taken in crediting the work in pulsed radar prior to the Ukrainian work. According to Guerlac, Henry, "Radar in World War II", volume 8, 1987, American Institute of Physics, pp 70-75, "Leo Young...was the first to hit upon the idea of using reflected pulses of radio energy for the detection of aircraft and other targets." Leo Young and Lawrence Hyland discussed the pulse method in 1930. Guerlac goes on the describe Leo Young and Robert Page working on the project as of 1934. On 28 April 1936, the pulse radar was successfully tested at the U.S. Naval Research Lab. Thus establishing the value of the method.

The British tested pulsed radar 15 June 1935 (Guerlac p 136-141) According to Guerlac, the value of the pulsed method was already established from the beginning of the British program (1934); and they did not attempt to develop beat radar.

Buderi, Robert, "The Invention That Changed the World," 1996, Simon and Schuster, also credits Robert Page with building a pulsed radar in March 1934 (p. 63) and notes the British experiments of June 1935.

Brown, Louis, "A Radar History of World War II", 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing, p. 81 describes the Lorenz company in Germany testing a pulsed radar in early 1936, and the Anti-Aircraft training school ordered sets for field evaluation.