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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
If the radar emitter is 25 feet above the waterline and the detector antenna on a large target is 80 feet up (high on the mast), then the detector can sniff the emitter at 17 nm.
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This begs the question of where the radar detection equipment actually was. I did some looking around on this and couldn't find jack. Regardless, I would actually be surprised if the IJN detection systems didn't have a range advantage over the us radars. I'm not sure that the range advantage is all that significant though. In other words, can the warning system provide enough information early enough to prevent the submarine from making contact? I just don't have enough information to make an accurate assessment.
As an aside, I would probably operationally run the radar in single sweep mode, with checks every 15 minutes or so until contact. I have a lot of reasons for this thinking I might expand on later. However, as far as the game goes, that's just too much work for me to actually do so it stays on.