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 ?
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.
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)
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