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Originally Posted by Bando
There is something with the radar contacts though. When a warship pops up it's identified by the radaroperator as a warship (it's a diamant shape). How do they know that???
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An experienced operator could tell a great deal from the return echo on his screen. He wouldn't always be able to differentiate between a warship and a merchant but sometimes he could. There are many references to this in the literature of the period. Additionally if the target is emitting its own radar transmissions it can only be a warship.
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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