Deep charges from planes ???!!!

[CapitanPiluso]

Hi people !

Last night I was warned by my RO that 3 planes were closing, so I ordered my gunners to take charge of them.When the planes began to attack, I hear from my officer the feared "deep charges in the water" phrase.

Is this a bug or a real situation?? I never come across this before
(SH3 1.4b)

Thanks in advance

[TarJak]

Some aircraft were armed with depth bombs:

Specifications (Sunderland III)

Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II[14]
General characteristics

* Crew: 8—11 (two pilots, radio operator, navigator, engineer, bomb-aimer, three to five gunners)
* Length: 85 ft 4 in (26.0 m)
* Wingspan: 112 ft 9½ in (34.39 m)
* Height: 32 ft 10½ in (10 m)
* Wing area: 1,487 ft² (138 m²)
* Empty weight: 34,500 lb (15,663 kg)
* Loaded weight: 58,000 lb (26,332 kg)
* Powerplant: 4× Bristol Pegasus XVIII nine-cylinder radial engines, 1,065 hp (794 kW) each

Performance

* Maximum speed: 210 mph (336 km/h) at 6,500 ft (1,980 m)
* Cruise speed: 178 mph (285 km/h) at 5,000 ft (1,525 m)
* Stall speed: 78 mph (125 km/h)
* Range: 1,780 mi (2,848 km)
* Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,880 m)
* Rate of climb: 720 ft/min (3.67 m/s)
* Wing loading: 39 lb/ft² (191 kg/m²)
* Power/mass: .018 hp/lb (.030 kW/kg)

Armament

* 8× 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
* various munitions, including bombs and depth charges, carried internally and winched out beneath the wings

[GoldenRivet]

and they were usually preset to a depth of about 30 meters (roughly) IIRC

[Sailor Steve]

25 feet, actually (7.6 meters).
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMBR_ASW.htm

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

25 feet, actually (7.6 meters).
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMBR_ASW.htm

perhaps i had my meters and my feet mixed up.

30 meters is awfully deep it seems for an air dropped depth charge... but anywhere between 7 and 10 would be ideal assuming the sub just crash dived.

it would barely be clearing such a depth when the things went boom!