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Originally Posted by ddiplock
I wonder if British subs ever got radar....I've never read up on that. Chances are, us Brits likely plastered all our surface ships with Radar instead so that no U-Boat could ever get close without detection. And the aircraft too. The Royal Navy as the war started turning against Germany actually sent out dedicated Hunter-Killer groups comprising of 3 or 4 destroyers who's only purpose was to pursue and sink enemy U-Boats.
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The war against u-boats was a first-priority issue for the british, being necessary to say that it was the only thing that, as churchill admited, made him his sleep (though this kind of braggant commentary is tipical of his bold style of narration). This meant they dumped huge ammounts of investment in developing anti-sub technology. By the early years of the war they already were very developed in terms of ship-bourne and aircraft-bourne radar systems.