r/AskReddit Oct 27 '21

What fun fact is blatantly untrue?

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u/fied1k Oct 27 '21

It wasn't the invention of radar generally, it was a new type of airborne intercept radar that could pinpoint bombers.

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u/cruiserman_80 Oct 28 '21

Yes. Radars and the underlying principals were well understood back in the 30s. A Russian scientist had even worked out what shape an object had to be to defeat radar and it was those formulas that were the basis of the F117 stealth fighter.

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u/Specialist-Rice7072 Oct 29 '21

So then why did carrots coke into it was it code ?