24th Rifle Division - twice reborn

After the loss of the battle flag, the 24th Rifle Division (1st forming) was disbanded and its number was assigned to a newly formed division with no connection to it. Nevertheless, by the end of the war, this new division bore all the decorations and honorifics of the disbanded division. How did this happen?

Challenger 3

Challenger 3 is the designation of the radical upgrade of the Challenger 2 tank, introduced in 2019 by the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land consortium (a joint project of BAE Systems and Rheinmetal). The project is a response to the UK Ministry of Defence's December 2015 effort to modernize Challenger 2 tanks through the Life Extension Project (LEP). This upgrade was to replace most of the turret subsystems (fire control system, communications and data systems, targeting systems) with new ones using the most advanced technologies without replacing the tank's own main armament.

FuMG 62 Würzburg

The code name Würzburg was used for the mobile radio measuring device developed by Telefunken in the decimeter wave range (designation: Funk-Sende-Empfangsgerät FuSE 62 or Funk-Messgerät FuMG 62; initially also FMG 39; Flak-Messgerät), which was used extensively by the Wehrmacht air force during the Second World War to guide night fighters and anti-aircraft guns.
The FuMG 62 was one of the first impulse radars to use decimeter waves at a frequency of 560 MHz (wavelength 53.6 cm) to accurately detect the range and altitude of enemy aircraft. Development began at the end of the 1930s and the first devices were deployed in 1940. In total, more than 4000 devices of various model series were probably manufactured. It was named after the city of Würzburg, as the head of Telefunken radar development, Wilhelm Runge, preferred cities as code names (see also Lichtenstein radar).

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