Aircraft at night ?

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Originally Posted by Nordmann

Perhaps the fact that you are unlikely to spot anything as small as a submarine, even on a clear night. Hence the reason why submarines recharged their batteries during the night.

Actually it depends on altitude and purpose of the flight . If my flight was specifically dispatch to search for a submarine I would have few extra crew members with binoculars looking for enemy submarines. That would increase chance of finding them .

During WWII there were a lot of cases when fighter searching for the t enemy bombers (during clear full moon nights). If it possible to find a small bomber at night then it is possible to find a submarine.