Battle of Britain
During the Battle of Britain the Royal Air Force (RAF) deployed an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system codenamed "pipsqueak", a term also used for a small calibre German shell during World War I. RAF fighters had a clockwork mechanism that regulated the broadcast of a signal over an HF channel for fourteen seconds of every minute. Each Fighter Command sector had Huff-Duff receiving stations that would monitor the "pipsqueak" broadcasts and telephone the bearings back to the sector control rooms where they could be triangulated and the squadron's location plotted.
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