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Old 08-04-08, 06:21 PM   #9
LukeFF
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Originally Posted by AntEater
I would really suggest to remove the radar alltogether, since the mechanical unreliability is not there in SH4. It gives a totally unrealistic advantage to late war careers.
I've read a lot of books about the submarine war, and the only time I've read about a working radar that was actually used was about a hohentwiel set installed in U 234 on its abortive japan voyage. That was May 1945.
A whole lot of people didn't even know that radar for submarines was available!
I know U 995 carries Hohentwiel as well, but keep in mind that the present condition is not historic.
U 995 was just under refit into a snorkel boat when the war ended but made all its patrols without Snorkel and without Radar.
Do you have Eberhard Rössler's book on U-boat development? He writes about how 64 FuMO61 Hohentwiel sets had been installed in operational boats by 20 September 1944, with a further 32 planned. U-862, operating out of Penang, reported it was picking up merchant contacts at about 7.5km or so with the gear. A further dozen or so boats had reported it was succesfully used as a aircraft warning device, a tactic reflected by Current Order No. 42.

Now, if you're talking about FuMO29, then yeah, that radar set was a piece of junk and wasn't installed in many boats. FuMO30 - who knows? I've only seen the quote by Uboat.net that says it was installed in "all boats."
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