The talk warns against treating a named radar system as a single fixed thing. British sets changed quickly because operating reports were fed into successive production batches, while American production could appear more uniform through larger runs. Pressure to solve problems in Norway, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean encouraged frequent British changes for inshore conditions. Pacific service could expose environmental limits in equipment that had worked well elsewhere. Tactics, training, production batches, and operating environments therefore evolved together rather than in a neat sequence of wholly new radar models.
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Radar development as a wartime feedback cycle
Rapid wartime radar improvement meant that batches of equipment incorporated lessons from earlier sets already at sea.