Limiting radar tech.

[damocles]

Texas Cowboy brought up a valid point. 1915 navigation radar on destroyers in 1921 seems too early and unhistorical. While I designed for it, I think he's right and we should have some sort of limit on it to make sure that the device is introduced into "service" as "realistically" as possible.

I was thinking a lower bound of 1.5% of a ship's displacement and 25 tons for the set would be fair. That would mean you would restrict the 1915 sets at the start to displacements of 3750 tons and up.

Any other suggestions?           

[maddox]

A Huelsmeyer device of 1915 , or the Nverse French Berliner sound based setup are not to be compared to 1935 radar as experimented by the UK.

The tools we have in the Nverse are of very limited useability, for example, telling the user in what arc of XX° something solid is present, but not accurate ranging nor doing more than ring a bell or light lamps.
Also, total range is very limited, in the best circumstances a nautical mile or 3 is feasable for the earliest version, without direction finding except actuated antennas.

In no conflict in the Nverse, such tech has made any difference... 

[miketr]

I am not evening bothering to mount the N-Verse early radars not worth the trouble.

Michael

[Kaiser Kirk]

I view it as a navigational aid at this point, for those dark cloudy nights where you're working in blacked out ships and want to keep in formation, or pick out known islands as waypoints.  On DD's it's an expensive piece of kit that would likely need frequent technical support. For DD's doing sweeps in the DEI, there may be some merit to trying it for night manuevers, but it would likely take well trained crews to get any real advantage from it.