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Originally Posted by scott613
Not really sure if I like these orange displays - or - not... Haven't seen them in real life... In DW - they seem a bit glaring...
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The Russians seem to favor them; I've just been to the K-77 and Rudolf Eglehofer/Hiddensee, and orange displays figure(d) prominently in their radar systems.
http://www.juliett484.org/juliett/juliettphotos.html
Unfortunately, either some of the displays shown in these photos were in compartments that were inaccessible to visitors, or they're photos from another sub. I spent 2 nearly undisturbed hours aboard K-77 and did not see the panels they're showing. Additionally, despite its labeling on the page,
http://www.juliett484.org/juliett/images/sonar.jpg is the radar system, not the sonar system.
TG
EDIT: Now that I look thru some of my Submarine Force Museum and Nautilus pics, I see that the old MK113 FCS and WLR-1G ESM system had orange displays too... I'm not sure whether those were just colored plastic overlays to dim the light from the CRT or if the CRT glass/phosphor was actually colored orange.