[SabreHawk]

Ya know I always wondered about the fact that the upgraded hydrophone thing they went with, and why they didnt just have both types onboard instead of one or the other. I know the sumberged only one was more robust with full 360 deg detection and a longer range, but still it seemed to me that having both would have been better.

Now as to using the upgraded one in SH5, I've found that in heavy seas where the bow spends a great deal of time under water I got contacts while on the surface. Thats how I found that convoy off the eastern coast, was just tooling along diving through the waves and as I checked the map I saw a sound contact line extending out ahead to port. Wow I thought, a sound contact while surfaced? That hadn't happened before, cause I had made other attacks and always lost the sound once we surfaced. But the sea was quite rough, and I could see that the forward half of the sub and sometimes the tower too was under water. So it must have been this that allowed the sound contact to show up.