Jettison Debris

[spurlash]

Hi Guy's, have we a mod for the jettisoning of debris from hunted U boats to try and fool the enemy hunters ?, I think this would be cool, and very useful as a last resort.
Any views or comments?

[Jimbuna]

None that I'm aware of.

[guntherprien]

I think it's a great idea,especially if it throws them off,lol.
However,if it's possible to do is another matter.
There again,I wouldn't put anything beyond the talent on this forum,they are brilliant people.:subsim:

[Sailor Steve]

Later in the war u-boats are equipped with BOLD, a bubble-emitting canister designed to fool SONAR.

[desertstriker]

historically Uboats would occasionally jettison debris and go to make DDs think they where dead.

[ninja turtle]

Hi Guy's, have we a mod for the jettisoning of debris from hunted U boats to try and fool the enemy hunters ?, I think this would be cool, and very useful as a last resort.
Any views or comments?

I think this is a brilliant idea. Didn't one of the earlier Sub Sims have this?

[VONHARRIS]

It was for sure in Silent Service II.

Anyway , that would be a very nice addition to SH3, under the condition that it clould be effective , not eye candy only.

[ninja turtle]

It was for sure in Silent Service II.

Anyway , that would be a very nice addition to SH3, under the condition that it clould be effective , not eye candy only.

Yes it was in Silent Service 2. I totally agree that it should be an effective ruse not eye candy
:up:

[Sailor Steve]

It was also in Silent Hunter 1. The good news there was that it could work, but didn't always.

[ninja turtle]

It was also in Silent Hunter 1. The good news there was that it could work, but didn't always.

Ah Silent hunter 1. Such a long time ago and so many happy memories. It's good that the debris trick didn't always work.

[Red October1984]

Yes it was in Silent Service 2. I totally agree that it should be an effective ruse not eye candy
:up:

Even if it is eye candy.....that'd be pretty awesome.

If it worked....well that would be even more awesome. :woot: :D

[Victor Schutze]

I remember this feature in SH1 or Silent Service around the 90s'. It is not implemented in SH3. I guess it is what one can call progress... :doh:

[Sailor Steve]

It's good that the debris trick didn't always work.
Wasn't so good when I died! :dead:

[danzig70]

It reminds me of an episode of star trek with a cloaked Romulan ship being hunted by the Enterprise.

[Sailor Steve]

It reminds me of an episode of star trek with a cloaked Romulan ship being hunted by the Enterprise.
Yep. That episode was ripped directly from the movie The Enemy Below. Highly recommended.

[danzig70]

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

[spurlash]

Shipmates,
I had this thought soon after starting a campaign in 1940, (before the issue/invention of decoys that worked on an audible premise).
It would be cool as a last resort, throw of the dice sort of thing, to see if visible floating debris could put a hunter off the scent, and determine weather we die or we live to fight again. We have floating debris now with most sinking's, so I think it's feasible. Making it happen however is another matter, and I'm afraid way beyond MY capabilities.
Cheers for the response,
Spurlash.

[TorpX]

Yep. That episode was ripped directly from the movie The Enemy Below. Highly recommended.
It reminded me of this too (The Enemy Below, not the Star Trek episode). I forget the details, but in the movie, didn't the U-boat release oil to interfere with the DD's sonar?

[HW3]

Oil release was another trick used to make the DD's think they had sunk the u-boat. Bold was used to create an underwater cloud of bubbles to give false echo's to the DD's Asdic.

:subsim:

[Madox58]

Maybe, if you did a custom torpedo thing you could get a passable debris thing working.

It would take alot of work in differnet areas to get something that woud give you the visuals along with MAYBE actually messing with surface units.

[FUBAR295]

It reminds me of an episode of star trek with a cloaked Romulan ship being hunted by the Enterprise.

The episode was titled "Balance of Terror".

[Mork_417]

It was also in Silent Hunter 1. The good news there was that it could work, but didn't always.


Yeah, I used it way too often. :haha: