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Originally Posted by Weiß Pinguin
Only gotten far enough for radar/radar warning in stock SH3. That's either a testament to GWX's incredible difficulty or my incredible Bernard...ity... :hmm:
On a sidenote, I remember reading that Metox was a bit of a giveaway as it sent out signals of its own. (The Brits had difficulty tracking the signals though, I believe) Is this modelled ingame?
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I think it was in Doenitz book "Ten years and Twenty Days" where he says that is what the German Navy thought....but it wasnt true.
The reason why they thought the Metox was giving them away is the Uboats kept getting attacked by air/sea and the Metox wasnt going off and giving a warning. So they thought these air/sea aggressors were homing in on the Metox signal, and not having to use their Radar. Thing is the Metox was a receiver..and transmitted no signal (never understood how german engineers tought it was giving away Uboats when it never transmitted a signal).
The truth of the matter was the Allies came up with a Radar that used a different bandwidth/frequency that the Metox couldnt pick up. With each advancement in radar the wave length used got tighter and tighter (example a 1cm band vs .05cm Band). Wave length being what is measured between Peaks of each radio wave. Also as the bandwidth got tighter, the allies could detect smaller and smaller items above water at a ever farther distance. Hence why in the later war they could detect items like the schnorkel or Periscope (when Uboat was submerged).