How to use uboat radar?

Dread Knot · 08-11-14, 08:28 AM

The impression I get from the war record is that radar installed on U-Boats was fairly useless. A wash at best. Allied aircraft with its radar turned on could be detected from a greater distance by means of German radar detectors (FuMB) than by means of their own on-board active radar. Unlike the American submarines, the Germans had to operate radar in an environment where not only did the enemy have it and understand it, but their sets were better and on antennae located higher up. By 1944 U-Boats were operating so often submerged, that radar, even better radar, become superfluous.

08-11-14, 08:28 AM	#2
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The impression I get from the war record is that radar installed on U-Boats was fairly useless. A wash at best. Allied aircraft with its radar turned on could be detected from a greater distance by means of German radar detectors (FuMB) than by means of their own on-board active radar. Unlike the American submarines, the Germans had to operate radar in an environment where not only did the enemy have it and understand it, but their sets were better and on antennae located higher up. By 1944 U-Boats were operating so often submerged, that radar, even better radar, become superfluous.