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frigokar · 09-25-14, 01:46 PM

i thought about how these escorts could come charging at my position assuming everything works as intended

Since i used hydrophone to locate the convoy at long range i obviously came in front of it using diesels at surface maintaing long range

1. One of the escorts had radar (both times in different convoys) (in january 1941) and picked me up in semi bad weather and remebered my position once i dived in front of the convoy...(i thought i was safe from escorts radar at least until 1942 and that early radars were very not effective against uboats)

2. Always thought that they cant, but can a escort hear you on its hydrophone if you are on the surface? Then again like radar it remebered my position once i dived and came charging at me

EDIT: It was night in both cases with semi bad weather so it couldnt be visual detection

SOME MORE EDIT: Did some research and wikipedia says that prototype radar was first tested at sea in March 1941 and operational units were fitted in august 1941...The Uboats.net page tells that U 100 (sunk in march 1941 captained by Joachim Schepke was the first uboat sunk by being detected by radar (coincedentaly my current Uboat designation ingame thats how i runed into this info :P)

AND SOME MORE EDIT: Just read in a book Churchills Navy by Brian Lavery that "32 sets of Typ268M were fitted by end of 1940...by middle of June 1941 some 200 ships had them but that their wavelenght was not suitable for anti sumbarine warfare,especialy in rough weathers." So i guess i was extremly unlucky to run into two convoys that had radar equiped escorts and that they did manage to detect me in that weather.Talk about chances. But then again dont know how GWX simulates this

09-25-14, 01:46 PM	#21
frigokar Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 45 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	i thought about how these escorts could come charging at my position assuming everything works as intended Since i used hydrophone to locate the convoy at long range i obviously came in front of it using diesels at surface maintaing long range 1. One of the escorts had radar (both times in different convoys) (in january 1941) and picked me up in semi bad weather and remebered my position once i dived in front of the convoy...(i thought i was safe from escorts radar at least until 1942 and that early radars were very not effective against uboats) 2. Always thought that they cant, but can a escort hear you on its hydrophone if you are on the surface? Then again like radar it remebered my position once i dived and came charging at me EDIT: It was night in both cases with semi bad weather so it couldnt be visual detection SOME MORE EDIT: Did some research and wikipedia says that prototype radar was first tested at sea in March 1941 and operational units were fitted in august 1941...The Uboats.net page tells that U 100 (sunk in march 1941 captained by Joachim Schepke was the first uboat sunk by being detected by radar (coincedentaly my current Uboat designation ingame thats how i runed into this info :P) AND SOME MORE EDIT: Just read in a book Churchills Navy by Brian Lavery that "32 sets of Typ268M were fitted by end of 1940...by middle of June 1941 some 200 ships had them but that their wavelenght was not suitable for anti sumbarine warfare,especialy in rough weathers." So i guess i was extremly unlucky to run into two convoys that had radar equiped escorts and that they did manage to detect me in that weather.Talk about chances. But then again dont know how GWX simulates this Last edited by frigokar; 09-25-14 at 03:37 PM.