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Originally Posted by Ducimus
People, you can only use one sensor at a time. If your using your peiscope, the sonar won't work. Want sonar back? lower the periscope and wait a couple seconds. |
Wrong. Theres nothing about the periscope that would interfere with sonar. From Edward Beaches Submarine! Pocket Books edition, pg. 125
In Harders conning tower the range dials on the TDC have reached 1,500 yards:target's speed is 15 knots, angle on bow zero, relative bearing zero, torpedo gyros zero.
"stand by to shoot! Up periscope!"
The periscope whines softly as it rises out of its well. At this moment another report frpm Sound:"Fast screws! Close aboard starboard beam!"
Thats just one example in the book where a sonar operator detected an unseen destroyer while the captain is on the periscope. There were others but thats the only one I could easily find. You may be thinking of radar, and thats would be true until they tried radar antennas on periscopes.