What’s with all the civilian radar and comm gear? This is obviously not a U S Navy sub.
I noticed that too. I wonder who gets their West Marine points?
It is, they are required to have the commercially approved gear when navigating ports and major shipping channels.
It has been this way since at least 1990.
That’s why the ship collusions don’t make sense, not only did they have their separate military systems they had separate commercially available systems that were operating at the same time.
Which would you rather have when your covert submarine has to run on the surface:
- US Navy Milspec radar and comm gear that every enemy can immediately classify as a Seawolf submarine, or
- The same Furuno marine radar as 50,000 other ships at sea?
There is a reason for using commercial off the shelf equipment when surfaced, and it’s not just to save money.