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Originally Posted by KriegsMarine
thanx for your info,armistead
so in real life, sub skippers could only hear the escort's active sonar ping while could not hear the bouncing sound caused by the sub hull ?
so in SHCE the bouncing sound we hear in a sub is not realistic, right?
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Well, I was asking Wernher...
, he's the brain.
I do know this. In reality if a ship goe's active you will hear the active ping. It doesn't have to have a target, he's searching, so you will hear the active sonar. If the active sonar hits a target, then you get a bounce back, if not, the sound wave will max out. I imagine with the equipment we have today you could pick up active sonar from hundreds of miles in the right conditions.
The return ping doe's sound different, obvious different sound waves on the return. If you're the one using active sonar, if you hit a target, you will hear the return bong in game, so yes, you will hear it if you hit a target.
I read a few stories of subs hearing active sonar from 50 plus nautical miles away. Sometimes the JP's escort did go active leading TF. I guess they thought with speed even if a sub heard them they couldn't catch up, so better to cover the front of the TF with sonar. Obvious a TF
has limited listening skills going fast on the surface. In game ships can only do one thing at a time, use sonar or listen, not both. So even if you're not being pinged, doesn't mean they're not listening. What hasn't been clarified in game to me is can a ship only listen when stationary?
What I was asking Wernher is if he knew is a sub could pick up a return bong. I assume not because the sound wave would be bouncing away, make sense. We don't hear the return in the
game, nor do I think we would. If he has us on shortscale, he's obvious getting a Ping/Bong every few seconds, but we hear only the ping.
Just like in your sub, if you send a active ping, you wait for the return ping, more of a bong....Your ping has hit the target, so it makes a different sound. Using that info you can figure distane to the target. In game it's simple, just wait for the return bong and send to TDC and you get accurate range.
I honestly don't know if subs had active sonar in WW2 that ran all the time as they do today. Obvious they wouldn't use it. The DD's did, so I assume a sub could go active...if he was dumb.
Shew..all this pinging and bonging is getting to me.