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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
Radar would have been a great tactical assets to U-Boats, especially at night or low visibility conditions. Many U-Boats were caught on the surface and sunk by escorts or airplanes which could see tham on Radar, while the U-Boat crew were basically blind.
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That is the point, however. RADAR works both ways, like a flashlight it helps you seeing stuff, but it also helps others to see you even better, given the right detection equipment. And the allies were particulary good at using every means to find U-Boats, including, to my knowledge, RADAR emission detectors. Evading an allied plane does not help much if this plane is able to signal your position, circle the area and gets relieved in this until the boat has to resurface just to have more planes or even a hunter/killer group waiting for you.
RADAR signals travel way further then their effective return signal treshhold.
That aside, this is a particualry good site for WW2 era RADARS:
http://www.radarworld.org