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Originally Posted by ShadoWarrior
The US took radar seriously. What most naval officers didn't take seriously was the idea of a Japanese attack on Hawaii.
British, American, and German warships in the early years of the war did have radar. Not very good ones, but they did have them.
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Have to disagree here, to be certain the US started mounting radars after Pearl Harbor, but it took the murderous fighting off Guadalcanal to teach the USN how to effectively use radars.
The USN started out with a serious case of severe overconfidence in the capability of radar. In many of the naval battles, the IJN, using lookouts with the old Mark I Eyeball spotted US ships long before they were visible on radar!