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Originally Posted by Zosimus
Anyway, I've never found it suicidal to travel on the surface. You get the radar detection notification and you order the dive a few seconds before the plane shows up. What's the problem? It's actually rather convenient.
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In the game yes, in real life there were for example very long delays between the introduction of newer generations allied radars and the development of detectors that could alert the u-boat to them. U-boat were found and sunk by planes using decimeter wavelength radars and the germans could not figure for a long time why their meter wavelength RWR gave no warning. The snorkel was a much more straightforward mechanical solution.