[REQ] Possible to stabilize only the UZO ?

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by stoianm

- now i do not know how it was in real... i know that magic1111 love very much uboat history and he readed a lot of books about... and i know that you are well informed all the time
so can you point me where to read some inf about UZO to see what was for real?

There was nothing magical about the UZO. It was a simple pair of binoculars strapped to a fixed point. No rangefinding mechanism, although you could send the bearing.

If you look at the photos I posted above, the UZO was fixed with a large axis on each side so you could pivot it up and down and keep a ship fixed even though the U-boat's bow was going up and down. However, since the "stabilizing" was done by the crewman, it would not work in very heavy seas. Furthermore, there is no stabilizing whatsoever for waves coming from the side.

Now let's look at the periscope. True, there is no stabilizing mechanism whatsoever, but that is because you don't need one. A sub underwater at 45-60 feet is much less affected by surface waves, so less side to side movement than if it is on the surface. In respect of fore and aft movement, you have the entire 220+ feet length of the hull underwater acting as a stabilizer, so little movement that way either.

so, you have two options, either of which can be seen as correct:

1. scope stabilized, UZO not stabilized;
2. scope stabilized, UZO stabilised;

options 1 and 2 are already available in all SH games.

however option 3: scope not stabilized, UZO stabilized is not historically correct.