The Simple British Beaufighter Nose Trick That Spotted German Convoy Ships Through Thick Fog

The British gave the Beaufighter one small trick — a perspex nose hiding a centimetric radar dish — and it made fog completely irrelevant. German convoys that moved at night and in thick North Sea mist believing weather was their shield suddenly found themselves under rocket attack from aircraft that couldn't even see them. This is the story of how one elegant, brutally simple engineering decision changed coastal warfare forever. #WW2 #RAFHistory #BristolBeaufighter #CoastalCommand #WW2Aviation #SecondWorldWar #MilitaryHistory #WW2Documentary #RadarHistory #BritishHistory #AviationHistory #WW2Technology