ASW Patrol vs Naval Search

[tsimmonds]

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

irrelevant - no worries. It suits your nick [:)]

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BTW, I have been sorely tempted, every time I see the word "irrelevant" in a post (which is maybe 5 times a day) to make this reply:

"...irrelevant..."

[8D]

...but I figure that would get annoying pretty fast.

[dpstafford]

ORIGINAL: Kid

It’s working for me. I just ran a test using the tutorial. The only TF I had deployed were submarine and all aircraft were either grounded or assigned ASW missions at 100%. There were no aircraft assigned to any other type of mission so there is no possibility of anything but an AWS mission spotting something. All the reports below are sub sightings. Do you have the percentage set up? Also, the reports do not distinguish between normal sighting reports and ASW sighting reports.

What altitude did you use. What is the best altitude for ASW?

[siRkid]

For the test I just used what ever happened to be set. I was intrested in spotting not attacking. I like to stay below 10,000 when conducting ASW in the game. I've no proof that that works better than others. ASW is what I did in RL for 9 years and we spent most of the time between 5,000 and 10,000.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: Kid

For the test I just used what ever happened to be set. I was intrested in spotting not attacking. I like to stay below 10,000 when conducting ASW in the game. I've no proof that that works better than others. ASW is what I did in RL for 9 years and we spent most of the time between 5,000 and 10,000.

I would imagine that you relied more on surface scan radar and sonar than your eyeballs didnt you?

[siRkid]

I would imagine that you relied more on surface scan radar and sonar than your eyeballs didnt you?

Good intel was the most important. Most of the time it was passive sonar. We kept the radar off so as not to be detected. Although, you can see a snorkel from very high up on a good day.

[Fallschirmjager]

ORIGINAL: Kid

I would imagine that you relied more on surface scan radar and sonar than your eyeballs didnt you?

Good intel was the most important. Most of the time it was passive sonar. We kept the radar off so as not to be detected. Although, you can see a snorkel from very high up on a good day.

Ahh I didnt think about detection. I never knew subs were outfitted with electronics to detect airbored radar.

[Howard Mitchell]

I never knew subs were outfitted with electronics to detect airbored radar.

Some were even in the Second World War. German U-Boats had detectors nickmaned 'Biscay Crosses' which could detect meter-length radar. Unfortunately for the Germans, one captured Allied airman told them that Costal Command aircraft could detect emmisions from it and so they lost confidence in it.

USN subs had radar detectors in the latter part of the Pacific War when Japanese ships started turning up with radar. My only accuracy Gripe with the old Silent Hunter game was that it didn't have them in.