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Originally Posted by CCIP
The issue is indeed radar. I believe all escorts get some form of radar in 1942. The same is true of airborne radar, for example.
One thing that might be worthwhile for modders is to try and tweak around with the equipment dates a bit.
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Yeah - I lost my brand new IXB on my first Drumbeat patrol in my first career several months ago - also off NY, and also from a Clemson that spotted me at night at dead slow from 8000m away on a moonless night in mid January 1942 - from the radar research I did after that it still seems highly unlikely that those old USN destroyers could possibly have had surface radar that would spot a u-boat from that far away at that time of the war, but I just chalked it up to bad luck and started a new career anyway - if I make it back to 1942 in this one I'll probably head further south and try for some lone merchants/tankers around Florida this time.