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Originally Posted by CaptBones

None of the naval commanders in the USN during WWII (including O'Kane and Fluckey) had to make things up entirely on their own; there was a large knowledge base available from the pre-war "Battle Problems", in which the submarine force was used almost exclusively for scouting, searching and patrolling large open ocean areas. ... Of course, they are all classified; at least CONFIDENTIAL and most at SECRET level.

Well, that explains why we don't see the these at hnsa.org.

I'm surprised that so much of these subjects would be classified. It seems like we sell off technology that is much more of a concern.

I can imagine O'Kane or others giving some more detailed explanations of these things, only to be told by their publisher to cut it down to a couple paragraphs - nobody will want to read about that.

BTW, you might be surprised to know that the search patterns in stock SH4 (and SH3) are almost right out of ATP-1 and the OA (Operations Analysis) books; they include the “Ladder Search” the "Crossover Barrier Patrol" and the "Expanding Square Search" (which the developers got completely backwards!!!). Unfortunately, none of them can be rotated; they are all fixed with a search axis along straight N-S/E-W lines and course lines of fixed length...oh well, again.

Not surprised; I mean about the getting it backwards part.



Very interesting post, very worthwhile.