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nematode · 12-05-06, 04:59 PM

See http://www.uboataces.com/radar-warning.shtml for a pretty good historical overview of Uboat radar warning tech.

In brief, unless you have the FuMB-35 Athos (which was deployed on a few XXI's at the very end of the war) or the FuMB-28 Naxos ZM (which was still in development at the surrender and didn't see service) -- both of which had a CRT display which could show bearing to the transmitting radar -- all you should get is the crewman's notice about "radar detected". In other words, virtually all RWR sets used by the ubootwaffe were like the radar detector in a car....you get an indicator light or an audible tone and that's it.

Playing with NYGM 2.2, I actually *DO* get bearing lines from the radar warning, even with METOX. I wish I knew how to turn off the bearing lines, because it isn't realistic for VII or IX ops, and it makes it trivially easy even at 100% to end-around radar equipped escorts and dive for a submerged attack on a convoy.

12-05-06, 04:59 PM	#9
nematode Seaman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 40 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	See http://www.uboataces.com/radar-warning.shtml for a pretty good historical overview of Uboat radar warning tech. In brief, unless you have the FuMB-35 Athos (which was deployed on a few XXI's at the very end of the war) or the FuMB-28 Naxos ZM (which was still in development at the surrender and didn't see service) -- both of which had a CRT display which could show bearing to the transmitting radar -- all you should get is the crewman's notice about "radar detected". In other words, virtually all RWR sets used by the ubootwaffe were like the radar detector in a car....you get an indicator light or an audible tone and that's it. Playing with NYGM 2.2, I actually DO get bearing lines from the radar warning, even with METOX. I wish I knew how to turn off the bearing lines, because it isn't realistic for VII or IX ops, and it makes it trivially easy even at 100% to end-around radar equipped escorts and dive for a submerged attack on a convoy.