Can you attack using only the Radar?

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I guess I'm getting old; I don't recall any accounts of attacks using nothing but radar. Making contact and getting initial ranges, sure; but I don't remember reading about them making the final attack without visual contact.

Jim Calvert reports one in 'Silent Running,' where they couldn't see the targets because it was a stormy night. They got quite a few hits but received very little credit for it due to the fact a sinking had to be visually confirmed. Radar confirmation was regarded as being less than accurate. I'm pretty sure he states that it was all done with the PPI. They used a Banjo as well to aid them and fired from extreme range. Calvert was quite upset about it, as his skipper, Tommy Dykers, was transfered out of Subs at the end of the patrol and Calvert believed that the patrol results to have played a part. (They seemed to have believed that Dykers taste for night time surface attacks betrayed a lack of appetite for a Daytime Peri attack and the inevitable Depth charging follow up... )