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Originally Posted by Beery
It should not be easy for a ship's crew to spot a periscope.
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If they can spot my scope at 2000 yards, in a moderate sea, at NIGHT, why do I find it so hard to locate downed flyers?
Just the other day I saw a program on the idiot box about modern Australian submarines. On a working up exercise against two frigates, in daylight with a slight sea running, HMAS Rankin (SSG 78) was able to get close enough to see men on their decks through the scope and then pass close enough beneath HMAS Adelaide to be able to photgraph her screws, undetected by any sensor, not the AN/SQS-56 sonar or the Eyeball Mk.1.