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Sir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.ir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the inventor of the radar [GETTY] Hitlerâs intention was to bomb Britain to defeat and thereâs no doubt that radar stopped that happening . Mary Wain, chairwoman of Bawdsey Radar. Radar operators in the south of England were able to detect Nazi air attacks while they were still forming up over airfields in France.