I was just remembering that the F15 or something has a safety switch that shuts down the radar when the wheels are on the ground. Evidently it puts out enough power to cook a turkey in 30 seconds or some such.
I guess the uboat radar was pretty low power.
As an aside, I shall whine and say that I find radar in the game to be pretty useless. It broadcasts your position far more than it finds things in range. And if you have map updates turned off you have to manually man and use the radar to find things. By the time you've jiggered with it long enough to get a hit and determine range and bearing you will probably have a visual sighting.
The stuff mounted on the front of the tower is even more useless. The time you really want it is in low visibility which is usually rough seas, and if a wave touches the radar array it shuts off. Which means the radar keeps shutting itself down about every 15 seconds.
Steve
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