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Originally Posted by Aramike
Question: what if the DC team has nothing to repair? Will it STILL be heard if not shut down during silent running at GQ?
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Last night I went after a fast TF (2 carriers, 2 BBs, 1 CL, 5 DDs) returning to home waters...sea was like glass and mid-afternoon, clear skies and lots of planes, so I went deep to wait and evade detection, came up with the big carrier ready to cross my firing line (using DO'K Method). Put 6 fish into the carrier and sent her to Davy Jones...
But with all that I was at battlestations and prepared for a beating from the escorts. Recalling this thread from yesterday I checked an my DC team was activated even though nothing to repair, so I "deactivated" them to try and ensure I was as quiet as possible.
The short of it was the escorts never even dropped a charge. Now part of that may have been a fast valuable TF moving away at 18 knots is going to want their escort, but that was by far the easiest evasion of a group escort of that nature I've even acomplished. So it made me wonder if that "deactivation" of the DC team--who had nothing to do per-se--actually made me quieter and aided in my evasion.
Anxious to hear the opinions...