Japanese Radar

[TC01]

What is the estimate range of the Japanses radars? Fairly new at the game, and I was tracking a convoy or the surface at night and I was detected by a destroyer. To stay out of harms ways/range how much distance should I allow to mauntain a safe distance.

Tom

[keltos01]

direct intel on Type 22 radar :

20 nautical miles (35 km) aircraft group
10 nautical miles (17 km) single aircraft (http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/A/i/Aircraft_Specifications.htm)
13 nautical miles (24 km) battleship (http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/a/Battleships.htm)

http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/T/y/Type_22_general_purpose_radar.htm



you can find all intel here :

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/

IJN shipborne radar :

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200B-0420-0462%20Report%20E-12.pdf


USN mission to Japan 1946

keltos

[keltos01]

they also had 20 cm binoculars installed on all ships... so you might just have been detected visually, even at night..

keltos

[TC01]

Thank you.

I was just a little surprised that the destroyer located me so easily. Thanks for the links.

Tom

[ferg]

you can find all intel here :

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/


From http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/:
There is a large body of documents from the 1920’s through the present day which are important for researching and understanding the history and development of the Fischer-Tropsch and related processes.

From Wikipedia:
The Fischer–Tropsch process (or Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis) is a set of chemical reactions that convert a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons.

I don't get it. Did you include the wrong URL?

[tater]

Not the wrong URL:

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ_toc.htm

[ferg]

Not the wrong URL:

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ_toc.htm

I see the relevance of that document. That site sure is strange to me, though. A section on dentistry in the Japanese navy? That's funny for some reason. What any of that has to do with the Fischer-Tropsch process escapes me.
:DL