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maillemaker · 02-01-10, 08:35 PM

I find radar to be useless. It almost never detects anything. First of all, you want radar the most in low visibility, which usually means rough seas. But if you have your radar set to continuous sweep and a wave crests your tower, it turns off the radar. Which means at any kind of time compression the radar is turning itself off every 3 seconds. Waste. Of. Time.

Secondly, it broadcasts your position. People are able to detect radar signals well before the person using the radar can detect the people detecting them.

So Radar is a fantastic beacon for enemy aircraft and task forces to come find you.

Radar detectors, on the other hand, are priceless.

02-01-10, 08:35 PM	#12
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	I find radar to be useless. It almost never detects anything. First of all, you want radar the most in low visibility, which usually means rough seas. But if you have your radar set to continuous sweep and a wave crests your tower, it turns off the radar. Which means at any kind of time compression the radar is turning itself off every 3 seconds. Waste. Of. Time. Secondly, it broadcasts your position. People are able to detect radar signals well before the person using the radar can detect the people detecting them. So Radar is a fantastic beacon for enemy aircraft and task forces to come find you. Radar detectors, on the other hand, are priceless.