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Originally Posted by CCIP
...this is why I also point out "successful german tactics" in the same paragraph later. I'm definitely talking about practice more than theory - a tactic in the books doesn't mean a successful tactic. I don't doubt that theories about making submerged-only approaches have been floating around since sonar was first invented, and might have even been in doctrine and on the books. However like you say, without more sophisticated TMA among other things, these were not a practical success.
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This is very true and one should never forget that military theory all too often fails when confronted by military fact. According to RN pre-war ASW theory, ASDIC rendered the submarine essentially harmless. How did that prediction turn out for them?