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Originally Posted by Seaveins
As always, thank you for your responses. I will try a new approach tonight with the tools you have shared. Do any of you know when Allied radar became commonplace on escorts?
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My approach is to assume they have it as early as Sep. 1940. Maybe they does and maybe they doesn't but caution never hurts.
This belief is derived from a destroyer I encountered in a storm in Sep. 1940. Maybe he just had REALLY good lookouts or a similarly talented hydrophone operator but as I was sneaking past him he suddenly veered in my direction. Luckily the bad weather ruined his ASDIC reception and I escaped unscathed by going deep and silent.
IRL march of 41 was the first detection by radar of a U-boat that resulted in a sinking. The boat happened to be U-99 under Otto Kretschmer. However, I am unsure as to how radar developments are modelled in-game and the allies indubitably had radar ship-mounted radar before this.