RADAR DEVELOPMENT AT VEB FUNKWERK KOEPENICK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300220006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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vessel in order to supervise the tests. They were ,
Eng. Scheuer (fnu). The latter technic
before to Manthey's department in orde
th radar development. He was scheduled t
the projecting of all centimeter-wave.,devices to be developed theye bye
Manthey in the future.
2. While the completed ant lNl vice was being subjected to trial
tests, two engineers in artment, Horst Kiesewald and. Arndt
(fnu), were engaged in the development of a new type of antenna for the
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In late August 154, the a Iii=1~ra~sr device ttot1is1ons- -
radar device.
then being use
antenna caused
sitating a ' powe u rive mo or an a ig'p ummer oc 1- w
increased frictional resistance. Upon Manthey's instruetions,'t two
engineers therefore developed a new type of antenna ca
V antenna (Tortenschachtelantenne). This kind of anten
centimeters above each other and connected with each other along their
es by a straight wall. The eU,tire instrument W .-,5
ural
open
ereas
antenna was between 35 and 40`uP,,uimi rs. The "horn radiat
the center of this cross section. In late August 195d_ lie
to use two antennae of this k1.nd in the radar device, on
transmission and the other for reception. Each of the tw
was to be connected by wave guides to either the transmit
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schutzgeraet), developed i of VEB Funkwerk Koepenick under
the supervision of Rudolf Manthey,-was mounted on an East German vessel at
the Stralsund coast for the purpose of undergoing practical tests which
were expegLI to last at least three weeks. Department TEA dispatched two
Radar D..1 ,apt !'" iak
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