Luft what are the reasons that SCS didn't implement this? I can't remember. It is strange as I am dead sure that in 688i if you had your periscope up too long you could be picked up on radar after a bit. Fish will need to help me out with this one.
If it is because the radar model is so simple that the masts would show up 100% of the time regardless of conditions then I can see why they didn't do it.
Thing is any navy types here who could give a ball park range that a sharp lookout could see the masts of a sub at say sea state 2-3 with a sub doing 5 knots.
Luft I hope you don't take this the wrong way I appreciate what you are doing regards masts and getting subs detected at periscope depth etc, I just hope it doesn't affect the balance. If I understood correctly AI lookouts will spot a sub at PD as fast as a sub on the surface. I guess things will come out in the wash.
However is this only going to affect visual. I tried mucking around with the P-3s FLIR and allowed it in the dbase to "see" underwater. Didn't work so I guess it is hardcoded.
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