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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
The fact is, our ONI manual was a by guess and by golly thing with a small subset of the ships likely to be encountered within its pages. If you found your target there, you could almost guarantee then information was wrong: wrong length, wrong masthead and cabin top heights, etc., because the Japanese knew what we knew. Then they changed funnels, altered mast heights, actually built scale model ships of larger ones so we would misidentify and get the range wrong by a factor of 3 or 4!
So you can see that the SCAF mod is THE OPPOSITE of the way we should be going. We sit around grousing about how we can get 100,000 tons in a cruise when very few subs did that during the entire wartime. Well, there's a large part of the answer. We cheat.
The real answer is to get rid of SCAF and introduce the Real Recognition Manual, with the exact crap our sub captains were forced to deal with in WWII. And watch those tonnage totals go down!  |
Well, as you probably know, that's exactly what were doing with RFB. As it turns out, the ONI mast/funnel/other height values were actually pretty accurate.