Atlas Echolot & Detection

NefariousKoel · 10-26-2006, 03:29 PM

Has anyone tested out detection ranges when you're checking the Depth Under Keel? Got any hard numbers or is this even implemented as it should be?

TarJak · 10-26-2006, 09:34 PM

Haven't done any hard testing but I know I've been detected from 8km on my last partrol. Weather was bad and the lookouts hadn't seen the DD when bernard hit the ping button. Unluckily there was only 110m of leeway and we got wasser bombed pretty bad.

Steeltrap · 10-27-2006, 01:32 AM

I've always had great reservations about the degree to which passive systems are effective on escorts (I think they're too good). Fact is that platforms for surface ships simply weren't great at that stage, certainly not with respect to being able to isolate sounds from the massive background noise when travelling on the surface at any speed above slow in any sort of sea above a slight ripple. And that's before we even consider the massive sound disturbance created in and around a convoy full of merchies....

10-26-2006, 03:29 PM	#1
NefariousKoel Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 2,664 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Atlas Echolot & Detection Has anyone tested out detection ranges when you're checking the Depth Under Keel? Got any hard numbers or is this even implemented as it should be? __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

10-26-2006, 09:34 PM	#2
TarJak Sea Knight Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 13,059 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Haven't done any hard testing but I know I've been detected from 8km on my last partrol. Weather was bad and the lookouts hadn't seen the DD when bernard hit the ping button. Unluckily there was only 110m of leeway and we got wasser bombed pretty bad. __________________ "there's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all" - Peter Drucker GWX Website TarJaks Funkraum 2008 Subsim Meet Photo Album

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10-27-2006, 01:32 AM	#3
Steeltrap Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 1,038 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've always had great reservations about the degree to which passive systems are effective on escorts (I think they're too good). Fact is that platforms for surface ships simply weren't great at that stage, certainly not with respect to being able to isolate sounds from the massive background noise when travelling on the surface at any speed above slow in any sort of sea above a slight ripple. And that's before we even consider the massive sound disturbance created in and around a convoy full of merchies....