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The Milkman
09-20-07, 10:28 PM
I couldn't help but notice while playing SH3, that my acoustic torpedoes usaully have a sucess rate of 70%. Upon reading some facts via uboat.net, it came to my attention that they really had a success rate of around 19%. Apparently they were largely unreliable. And mentioned further in the article it said that the allies had certain counter measures that involved dragging a box far behind a ship that emitted a loud noise to divert the homing torpedoes. I'm not asking anyone to create a mod, fix, or even consider this......I just merely thought it was interesting.:up:


http://uboat.net/special/analysis.htm
denis_469
09-21-07, 03:18 AM
I couldn't help but notice while playing SH3, that my acoustic torpedoes usaully have a sucess rate of 70%. Upon reading some facts via uboat.net, it came to my attention that they really had a success rate of around 19%. Apparently they were largely unreliable. And mentioned further in the article it said that the allies had certain counter measures that involved dragging a box far behind a ship that emitted a loud noise to divert the homing torpedoes. I'm not asking anyone to create a mod, fix, or even consider this......I just merely thought it was interesting.:up:


http://uboat.net/special/analysis.htm

This work have many errors. And in game T-V made wrong and unrealistic.
danlisa
09-21-07, 04:01 AM
And mentioned further in the article it said that the allies had certain counter measures that involved dragging a box far behind a ship that emitted a loud noise to divert the homing torpedoes.

Haha, you mean FOXER, a devious and cunning decoy which took months of research to perfect.

It was an oil drum with holes punched into it.:rotfl:

I asked about modelling FOXER a long time ago.

http://www.de220.com/Armament/Decoys/Decoys.htm
papa_smurf
09-21-07, 08:58 AM
Haha, you mean FOXER, a devious and cunning decoy which took months of research to perfect.



It also gave away a convoys position - could heard for miles. And it made the towing ships hydrophones less effective.
Pablo
09-22-07, 05:31 AM
Haha, you mean FOXER, a devious and cunning decoy which took months of research to perfect.


It also gave away a convoys position - could heard for miles. And it made the towing ships hydrophones less effective.
Hi!

I wouldn't think the Foxer was any more of a sound beacon than the engine noise of 60-70 large ships in convoy... :)

Pablo