German sabotage in UK during WW2

Also, it was only in the immediate war scare of 1940 that the LDV were poorly armed - they were soon provided with, if not front line arms, then certainly sufficient to deal with a necessarily small go up of saboteurs.

As 2nd line Light Infantry the Home Guard in Invasion areas were every well equipped by late 1940 early 1941. Rifles would be a mix of .303 P14 Enfields, .30-06 M1917 Enfields and 1903 Springfields, LMGs were a mix of .303 and .30-06 Lewis guns and a few .303 Hotchkiss portatives. Home Guard areas were kept seperate as .303 or .30-06 units so there would be less supply confusion.

The real sabotuer killers would probably have been the GHQ Auxillary Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Units who were basically part time special forces and would have been a nasty shock for anyone.
 
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Your best bet is to have the Abwehr not be compromised and the entire German intelligence effort not be hamhanded. Then you'd have agents that could run sabotage missions. Trying to use military personnel to run sabotage would be pointless as it would for one thing be a suicide mission without ability to get out and not do necessary damage to make the sacrifice worthwhile; really only spies can pull of worthwhile damage, like the Abwehr tried to do IOTL with agents that had been turned by MI5. Have them not be turned and sabotage British factories and you're good to go.

Now if you wanted the military sabotage route, in 1940 having Luftwaffe paratroopers like the guys the did Eben Emael pull an operation biting in reverse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Biting

Have they blow up and capture technology from Chain Home to be able to then figure out how to jam it. That would make a lot more sense and have them be extractable. As it was getting agents into Britain was a lot harder for the Germans than the reserve for the Brits, because they could rely on French help when putting men into the continent. The Brits did not have a good record getting people into Germany until much later in the war, as its tough to get military people in and out of enemy homeland. So you're limited to shore targets and they have to be highly worthwhile to risk the high quality, very limited manpower that is necessary to pull off an operation like that.
 
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