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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Sounds great, but it's wrong. Otherwise Fluckey would have operated this way. He didn't. By maintaining 10 knot surface speed, you search many times more square miles of ocean surface in a given time than you can at dead slow underwater listening with sonar. The number of targets you find is directly proportional to the number of square miles you search in a given time.
It's just a numbers game, but it's much more involved than how far you can see to the horizon. Fluckey figured he could search 10 times the area of ostriches just with visual high periscope technique on the surface and NOT using the radar at all. Considering his results compared to other sub captains in the mid 1944 to end of war era, I believe him.
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Totally agree RR. I never seach sumerged,even before I have radar,as you said,you can cover so much more ocean on the surface more efficiently.
