Junkers Ju 86 with radar ?

[Jemiba]

In "Junkers-Pictorial Record Of All Aircraft", I've found a photo of a Ju 86E, said to
be used in a training role and fitted with a nose raome instead of the nose gun turret.
Any idea which radar it could have been ?

 

[JFC Fuller]

Assuming that is a radar housing, the only one that comes to mind that would have that sort of installation is the FuG-240 Berlin with a parabolic antenna- the other German airborne radars that I can think of used external dipole aerials. Only a couple of dozen sets were built before the end of the war.

 

[Jemiba]

Well, it seems the 70 cm dish of the FuG 240 would fit perfectly into the nose
of the Ju 86. I just had doubts, that this old type was still used in late 1944/
early 1945 (there's no date given for the photo), but why not ?
(Drawing of the Ju 86 from http://ex-ogma.blogspot.de/2008/04/avies-da-fap-junkers-ju86.html)