Tom Hanks' new convoy war movie: Greyhound

08-03-20, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mrb__

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Isn’t that a satellite dish?

Looks like a Mk 19 fire control radar to me. Bofors mounts started receiving them by the end of the war, so showing them, along with quadruple mounts on a DD in 1942, is obviously anachronistic. Looks like the filmmakers just left the radars on and prayed none of us nerds noticed.

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