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Originally Posted by deepboat
Just finished watching "The Enemy Below", and I saw something interesting. The u-boat was tracking a escort on the surface with radar but it was one with a horizontal bar and would show a "V" in the line when it scanned the target. What kind of radar is it? Or is it fictional?
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Hi!
The German radar oscilloscope shown in
The Enemy Below is an "A-scope" display. It is the same type of display used by U-boats until the Type XXI, but I don't know if it looks exactly like a U-boat radar display. The Allied radar in the same movie uses a Plan Position Indicator (PPI), which was used historically by Allied ships later in the war.
See Appendix A of the GWX Manual for a longer dissertation.
Pablo
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