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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. We flew these unarmed planes in and out of Germany alongside our bombers and basically built up the “radar order of battle.&# And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) How was this possible?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

Air Force also needed improvements in frequency agility to protect its cold war bombers. Frequency agility can be best described by what happened over Germany in WWII. As the allies jammed Germany radar, the Germans tried to avoid the effect of jamming by changing the frequency on which their radars transmitted.