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Originally Posted by Keelbuster
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Originally Posted by dcb
Escorts now come right at me even before I can get a fix on the convoy on my (primitive) radar.
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Turn off your radar. You're broadcasting your presence and position over an electromagnetic loud-speaker. I never use radar, and as of yet have not found any use for it, except for locating lone un-armed merchants in heavy fog. |
agreed. It is a near useless tool and you might as well launch signal flares every nautical mile you move forward... leave it off or dont equip it on your boat at all.
I have found that if you leave map contact updates ON you will see the little grey contact line that represents a radar signal... if you stay right on the outer most edge of this line they will not detect you... try to exploit this to your advantage if you can, but this is very difficult to do.
radar was the final blow to the U-boat war IMHO... my strategy for late war is to remain submerged for as long as possible, only surfacing at night to recharge batteries and when i do so i am moving at flank speed.
hunting ships should be dont almost entirely by hydrophone after 1943... your war is pretty much over after that point.