GRAPPLE HOOKS ON SURFACE VESSELS TO SNAG SUBS

[WARHEAD1]

I JUST GOT A MOVIE "BELOW" NOT TO BE MISTAKEN FOR "THE ENEMY BELOW" THAT HAD THESE GRAPPLE HOOKS ON THEM THAT DID A NUMBER ON A WWII SUB-SEE THE MOVIE...

[McBeck]

Why are you yelling??? :shifty:

[squeak]

did you mean the hooks that the german DD used to find the american uboat?
i´m takling about right movie ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276816/
(btw this is my first post here :D )

[Dowly]

Squeak, welcome aboard fellow Kaleun!

[Wolfram]

@squeak & WARHEAD1 welcome aboard :)

@WARHEAD1 typing with Caps Lock on is considered yelling when posting. :yep:

Grappling Hooks? :hmm: seems it would be a lot like fishing with a drag net - a lot of luck but if that is all you have for a weapon I guess better than nothing.

Welcome again both of you.

Have Fun!

:lurk:

[FAdmiral]

I saw that movie but from the looks of the hooks they used, a
smaller tonnage DD would be very hard pressed to operate
something like that. More of a tactic of a large merchant
dredgeing ship somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 tons.


JIM

[Gorduz]

But it do seem like a tactic which could be applied, not as a weapon, but as a mean to accuratly pinpoint a sub.

[squeak]

@squeak & WARHEAD1 welcome aboard :)

@WARHEAD1 typing with Caps Lock on is considered yelling when posting. :yep:
Have Fun!

:lurk:

Thx mate :up:

[Brag]

If one could hook up a bouy to the sub, It could work quite well. But considering how difficult it was to pinpoint the location of a sub, probably not practical--that's why they came out with sono-bouys.

[Thniper]

Something fishy going on here... :o :shifty:

FIREWALL, you say you are new to this forum but you already posted over a 1000 times here?!?:nope:

Furthermore replying to a thread which 2 years old...

Very strange.

EDIT:
@Seth: You can remove my post here too, since problems have been solved!

[_Seth_]

opened again. Beware; Mods are watching... :lol::lol::lol:

[Jimbuna]

Exhuming no doubt :lol:

[Swooth]

Exhuming no doubt :lol:

I'm scared of what they might find

[FIREWALL]

Something fishy going on here... :o :shifty:

FIREWALL, you say you are new to this forum but you already posted over a 1000 times here?!?:nope:

Furthermore replying to a thread which 2 years old...

Very strange.



:huh: ?????????

[TwistedFemur]

Something fishy going on here... :o :shifty:

FIREWALL, you say you are new to this forum but you already posted over a 1000 times here?!?:nope:

Furthermore replying to a thread which 2 years old...

Very strange.

The first 8 posts of this thread where posted in 2005

[_Seth_]

Nothing to worry about, mates... This is sorted out. :up: Now, lets just keep to topic, shall we? :rock::rock:

[xristoskaiti]

they is not joke.......the 1976 Greek piscatorial it drew enough hour
Turkish submarine at the duration of exercise NATO :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Hartmann]

And a spanish fishing boat pick a unidentified submarine in the net in the atlantic some years ago.
they have to cut the net to free the boat , wich was towed by the submarine

OTAN denied all implication in the affair, so probably was a russian nuke submarine.


perhaps a net with explosives can be a good way to destroy u-boats....

[silentrunner]

I saw that movie it was kind of weird in my opinion the best part of that movie is when the Benny Goodman starts playing if I was Lt.Brice I wouldn't have broken the reacord.

...Benny Goodman is awsome...

[Puster Bill]

And a spanish fishing boat pick a unidentified submarine in the net in the atlantic some years ago.
they have to cut the net to free the boat , wich was towed by the submarine

OTAN denied all implication in the affair, so probably was a russian nuke submarine.


perhaps a net with explosives can be a good way to destroy u-boats....

In WWI they used 'sweeps' and 'paravanes', essentially contact mines on long cables, that had vanes that kept them spread out on both sides of the ship. The theory was that you deploy these when there is a u-boat about, and try and snag it. Once the cable hits the submerged u-boat, the forward motion of the attacking surface ship pulls the mine into the sub.

They had some success, but were phased out and replaced by depth charges, I'm guessing because they were only effective against subs at or near periscope depth.

[Stealth Hunter]

I JUST GOT A MOVIE "BELOW" NOT TO BE MISTAKEN FOR "THE ENEMY BELOW" THAT HAD THESE GRAPPLE HOOKS ON THEM THAT DID A NUMBER ON A WWII SUB-SEE THE MOVIE...

I THINK YOUR CAPS LOCK MUST BE BROKEN. PLEASE COME BACK WHEN YOU FIX THAT, NOOBIE.:stare: