[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

[Hubert Miller]

Radar has limits on range, which means better chance of successful search if
you can narrow the hunting ground.
Message decoding was NOT instantaneous, at best hours and if i'm not
mistaken, at times longer and not always successful.
HF-DF WAS instantaneous. I think it had its place.
-H


>On 25 Aug 2016 at 13:16, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:

> Didn't the allies hype detection by DF-ing to hide the fact they were 
> finding submarines by message interception and decryption and 
> detection by Microwave RADAR?
> 
> Mike N2MS

That was my understanding. Yes.

In addition, the Germans had their Metox radar detecting warning receiver in
submarines. 
But some very imaginative Allied airman who was captured by the Germans
convinced them that Allied airplanes were homing in on the Metox's LO, so
many German sub captains turned it off. In actual fact, the reason our
aircraft were finding and killing subs was microwave radar.

Ken W7EKB


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