airborne radar mod-is it worth it?

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Originally Posted by panthercules

Or are you really trying to simulate a situation where the airplane's radar would be detectable but the plane wouldn't just be cruising around with it always on (and therefore always be detectable at long range) but would instead be turning it on occasionally and leaving it off the rest of the time, so you want to simulate situations where the plane sometimes first detects the u-boat (and vice versa) at relatively short range because it happened to turn on its radar when it happened to be fairly close to the u-boat? If this were the goal though, I assume you would want to mod the airplane radar 'cause you would not really want to airplane to locate the sub from any further out than it actually "turns on" its radar.

Would the approach you take to this, in terms of choosing whether to mod either the u-boat's sensors or the airplane's radars, differ depending upon which of the two theoretical "problems" described above you were trying to fix, or is it just a question of planes never surprising subs the way the game works now and you're trying to simulate surprise no matter what the reason?

Panthercules, this was my original idea and after playing with the different RWR units I now have an idea of the results these would bring. I think I'm going to go back to the AC radar units and play with these to compare the two.
My theory was to mimick later war behaviour of a boat getting caught on the surface by AC. Aircraft attacks accounted for a huge amount of U Boat attrition in the later years. Right now playing in early 44 my radar warning is always giving me way too much advance notice that an AC is inbound. Early war gameplay however you are correct we get surprised all the time, but later years unless there's a surprise or unexpected attack it's too easy. In my current campaign patrol leaving St Naziere crossing the Bay of Biscay heading toward grid AK. Travelling surfaced as much as possible I have run into multiple inbound Aircraft daily. Each and every time I am able to dive to a safe depth with plenty of time to spare.