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Originally Posted by Hitman
IIRC the reason was that, by the time the TBTs started being installed, all subs had radar -which was used on a quick impulse to get range on the already trained bearing and then switched off again for stealth.
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Fluckey tells about hooking radar to a telegraph key. Train the bearing, hit the key, get the range and no chance of any meaningful info getting out. They were too paranoid about such things. But when your life's on the line I suppose you take no chances. If it accomplished nothing else, and there's no evidence that it did, it let his crew know that their lives wouldn't be needlessly risked.