RADAR REMAINS AT HUGE WW2 GERMAN BUNKER SITE

This site in the small village of Predefin in the Pas de Calais area of France was originally built as a radar and radio guidance base in support of the new V2 wonder weapons.

The constructions took place in two separate sites to the south of the village – one for radar to monitor the V2s rockets launched from Eperlecques and La Coupole and the second site to control the flight of these huge missiles.

As V2 rocket technology improved, the planned use of the sites was redundant by early 1944 and so it was handed over to the Luftwaffe who set about extending the site to use it as a radio tracking base.
At its peak, over 600 personnel are believed to have been stationed here.

This structure is a plinth for a huge Mammut radar array, which stood on top of a multi-room L485 type bunker buried in the ground below.

This 25m wide, 10m high, early-warning radar array could track targets up to 300km away at an altitude of 8,000m.
Inside the building was housed advanced technology for the time including ‘Seeburg’ electronic plotting tables as well as comms and crew rooms.

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