Why no hydrophone/sonar qualification?
 

This has always puzzled me. Personally, I use the hydrophone a lot more than I use the radio/radar. Why is there a radio qualification and no hydrophone qualification?

What exactly does the radio qualification do?

Too bad you can't assign an officer to the radio/sonar room- in fact, that is the only part of the boat you CANT assign an officer. Odd...

The radio qualification increases the effectiveness of that crew stationed to that compartment, which means all activities associated with it i.e. the hydrophones. So by giving your petty officer a radio qualification, you're really giving him a radio/hydrophone/sonar/radar qualification.

As far as I know, anyways. ;)

Mookie Mookie has got it right. At least in SHIII the qualifications for both are the same. I'd assume that in real life this would have been a bit of a problem as the skills and tehcnical requriements for each specialisation are very different.

I can see radio and radar/radar detection being close enough but the sound tech quals would have been quite a bit different. other than the general tedium of sitting around waiting for something to happen!

If you look closely at the F7 screen, each compartment has one icon only. So yes, they chose the lightning bolt to represent all the skills asociated with the "radio, radar, sonar and hydrophone room" (heck, it even qualifies for the captains bunk bed :p )

What are you implying? My relationship with my radioman and sonar man are above reproach!:rotfl:

So I guess its a good Idea to have two petty officers with the uber-radio qualifcation?:hmm: