{req/question} possible to simulate MAD in Japanese ASW planes?

[Bubblehead1980]

Also, would it be possible to implement MAD into late war Japanese ASW planes?

Or to simulate MAD by having certain planes able to detect a submerged sub no matter what as deep as say 200 or 250 feet? Ability to drop depth charges that deep also. This would simulate MAD in a way and add to the ASW threat in late war.

Just finished reading Take her Deep! about the USS Halibut, MAD was used on the Halibut with much effectiveness in November 1944, Halibut was so badly damaged by the attack they followed her detection with MAD that she never made a nother war patrol because she could not be fixed.Other subs fell victim to this technology as well.

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Also, Could someone whip up a Maru Style Recognition Manual for RFB 2.0 RSRD?

Prefer to have the name of ships such as Nippon Maru etc instead of Large Modern Tanker, mainly since in RL the manuals listed ship names, easier to remember and ID also.

The rec manual in TMO is a good example

[keltos01]

Mad range and use among the IJN :

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2658/madl.jpg (http://img64.imageshack.us/i/madl.jpg/)

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6771/mad2v.jpg (http://img9.imageshack.us/i/mad2v.jpg/)

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7487/mad3l.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/mad3l.jpg/)


source :
http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200B-0504-0540%20Report%20E-14.pdf


Depth Charges range and use among the IJN :

ASW Complement
In the early part of the Pacific War first-line destroyers carried almost no DCs at all while "Kaibokan" escorts carried 12 to 18. By the end of the war, most destroyers carried 30 DCs and escort vessels (kaibokan) carried about 120 including those stored below deck. Destroyers usually had only stern racks but escort vessels had six or eight depth charge throwers (DCT) and some Y guns.


Type 95 .
Date Of Design 1935
Date In Service 1940
Total Weight 325 lbs. (160 kg)
Explosive Charge 220 lbs. (100 kg)
Type 88 charge Sink Rate / Terminal Velocity 6 fps (1.9 mps)
Settings 98 or 197 feet (30 or 60 m)
Later versions included a 295 foot (90 m)

setting Notes: This was the standard DC for the first half of World War II. Slow ships dropped it with a parachute which allowed them to escape the danger area. Unfortunately, it also allowed the submarine to escape. Parachute DC used only the shallower setting. Depth setting was controlled by varying the size of a water inlet, when the proper amount of water entered the charge would fire.

Type 2 .
Date Of Design 1942
Date In Service 1943
Total Weight N/A
Explosive Charge
Mod 0: 231 lbs. (105 kg) Type 88
Mod 1: 357 lbs. (162 kg) Type 97 or 98
Mod 2: 243 lbs. (110 kg) Type 1 or 4

Sink Rate / Terminal Velocity 9.9 fps (3.0 mps) Settings about 25 feet (7.6 m) Notes: Almost a direct copy of British designs. Same sort of pistol as on the Type 95.

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMJAP_ASW.htm



source :
http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200E-0344-0416%20Report%200-19.pdf

another one on IJN depth charges :

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200E-0023-0034%20Report%200-08.pdf

I hope this intel will be of help.

keltos

[Bubblehead1980]

:salute:Thanks for the info keltos

[Ducimus]

>>possible to simulate MAD in Japanese ASW planes?

Kinda sorta, yeah. The functionality is already there in my "evil airplanes", just expand on it by making a new visual sensor, reconfigure it for the obtainable parameters that will work, and assign it to a new aircraft. New aircraft being a "cloned" version of an existing plane, that inheirts its dat files from said existing plane. Then assign that plane to airbases so it randomly spawns during the campaign.

[Bubblehead1980]

nice, hopefully someone who knows how to do this will pick up on what you said, would be a great shock if from October 44 on some planes had MAD and could nail you players at what is normally a safe depth.Halibut was lucky to survive.