How to Get Inside a Japanese Convoy

When they're pouring on the coal, when they're going wide open, those diesels do emit smoke. And I mean, well, you can also, if you're really unlucky, get sparks. But in those opening moments where you've gone like zero to 60 in five seconds, if someone's got a shot, look out,. They're like, ah, there seems to be a column of sparks going that way. Or if it's a very well that night they might notice a haze of thick smoke that they can then track and go, something is producing this. Yeah. Unless you're a tramp steamer that's been toodling along without a proper clean for decades