PTBoats

[BuckShot]

An aiming device for the rockets would be nice. I'm usually almost out by the time I'm on target.

[Ack-Ack]

Why just have dar work on PT's when all the ships in a task group have it? Is the cv the only one that has surface to air?

I don't think the SO surface search radars were able to pick out air contacts.  In any event, for air threats the primary detection system used by PT Boats were the Mark I I-Ball coupled with a binocular.  The SO radar was also used primarily at night for navigation and to locate Japanese shipping.

[Mongoose]

for air threats the primary detection system used by PT Boats were the Mark I I-Ball coupled with a binocular. 

I hope you meant Mark I Eyeball.  The way you wrote it, I first read it as Mark II ball, which just brings too many off-the-wall thoughts to mind.  (Rubber ball?  B.A.L.L., an acronym for some type of navigation device?....)
     

[Mano]

+1

 

[Ack-Ack]

The way I would see the PT Boat radar working (and keeping in line how the SO and SO-3 type radars worked) is they'd be able to detect any ships within range (20-23 nautical miles) and then the ships (CV task force) would show up on the 'dar map as a base icon, like how the base icons appear on the map.  The PT boats would not detect aircraft since they didn't carry surface to air radar in real life.

[Tilt]

Think I would go with a RL implementation.

PT boat captain can see it on his FE and radios it in on channel.

Whilst the PT has used boat borne radar the CV has no more been detected than if it were over flown by an AC.