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Originally Posted by Akula4745
If my targeting chart is to be believed I have been within 6000 yards of an escort on the surface at night and not been detected. I would imagine a sub would not create much of a radar target... but at such a short range you would think I would stick out like a sore thumb! No surface radar would certainly explain it...
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Japanese surface search radar (Type 22) was only good to about 7000 meters (a shade under 4 miles) against submarines and was blind under 1500 meters, not to mention it had only about an 80% reliability rate (all of this is modeled in RFB, except for the reliability part). That, and the radar fitted to their ASW aircraft was generally deemed by the pilots to be practically worthless. All said, the picture one gets is that radar was only a minor annoyance to American sub crews in the last months of the war (with notable exceptions, of course).