not a mod but an interesting point

i was trying to explain to my sister who does not play naval games but who was interested in the ones i play, how in SH3 one can use a real targeting system by matching the mast height to the ship recognition manual, when she asked something that kinda shocked me. She asked, "why didn't the Americans and British just randomize the heights of all their masts or make them adjustable in height?" and it hit me that she was right, for a price alot cheaper than building a new ship to replace a destroyed one and retrain a new crew to replace the dead one, the allies could have made most of the ship's silhouette adjustable (at least to the eyes of u-boat captains) making long range torpedo firing almost impossible and forcing the subs to only attempt short range firing. Short range firing was both more dangerous and in the case of u-boat speed, often impossible. Such a simple fix, even with just the mast, would have greatly increased the chances that torpedoes would have missed. i suppose this only goes to prove what the airforce has always said about navy.