From an historical point of view, running into the occasional "retard AI" is right and proper. The Japanese Navy developed a tradition early on for optics, including night fighting, but had a distinct tendency to pooh-pooh radar and sonar as "gadgets". If they couldn't lay eyes on it, they didn't trust the data, by and large (notice the US had the same attitude, pre-Pearl).
As a result, the positions of radarman/sonarman were often punitive. They were boring, repetitive, math-crunching jobs "unsuited for a true warrior". It was a job on the level of mess hall cook to the Japanese and nothing to take pride in doing.
As a result of that attitude, training and retention of sonar/radar crews was particularly lackluster throughout the war. Even though Japan actually produced exceptional arrays toward the end of the conflict, they never maintained a universally reliable cadre to actually operate the things.
So that time you run into the "stupid" DD that's just sitting there 500 yards away while you pop a fish at it? The sonar guy's prolly listening to Radio Honolulu.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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