WesWorld

Trying not to be nit picky, but the pilots observation isn't very accurate in Snip's snippit. Mainly for three reasons.

Reason #1:
The statement that the ship was too small to be Greek

Eurybiades Class CLs are nearly (at least from a pilots viewpoint) identical in size to the Srbija (430x47 vs 475x44) and have nearly identical gun layout

Reason #2:
The Srbija's were built in Greek yards, so I'd presume, even though they were built to 'Yugoslavian Plans' there would be some identifiable "Greek" features.

Reason #3:
Since you spotted them on Day 1 of their transit, I'd presume they'd still be heading south-southeast towards Greece. Therefore the 'their heading the wrong way' bit seems out of place.

As I said, not trying to be nit-picky, but I think IDing them might be a little harder than that.

Good story so far by all though!

Its what I deserve for writing that shortly after midnight.

I would expect the Scorpione to be equipped with radar so I don't see the weather being too much a handicap. The Yugoslav squadron would make a large and unique radar target. The sandstorms might cause more problems but I doubt the group would sail that close to the North African shore. Especially with commercial traffic in the area.

Anyhow, nice work guys.

Commodore Lokar would not know that the Scorpione is equipped with airborne search radar; indeed, this is the first confirmation that the Italian Air Force has such capability; it is not surprising in itself, merely something heretofore not known.

Dust blown high into the atmosphere could play hob with the Scorpione's engines, and that it something Lokar is counting on. How well that plays out remains to be seen. Of course, if stormy weather kicks up, all the normal concomitants of air search in bad weather come into play.

Well RA had planned some kind of radar and primitive MAD for it. Given other WW developments I don't think its too far a stretch given it is the most modern maritime patrol aircraft in the world. Of course IC that's probably not known, certainly the RAF does not IC advertise its maritime patrol aircraft have RDF.

Good story so far gentlemen, am enjoying it.