The game's radar-directed firing raises the question of what a comparable capability would mean in 1940. British investment in shipborne radar and its deployment could offer a meaningful advantage in locating and engaging an opponent. In this account, the Royal Navy had as many radar-equipped ships in 1939 as the rest of the world's navies combined, making deployment as important as invention. Fire control depends on sensors, communications, and the institution able to put them into service.
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Shipboard radar and long-range gunnery
A long-range firing scenario prompts a discussion of how early radar investment could affect naval gunnery in the Second World War.