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Originally Posted by commandosolo2009
I got 2 sonar contacts, but non moving apparently. I've marked their position on the map. Are these mines? And how do you detect mines? how much are mines used in game say for 100 kms?
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Passive sonar only shows noisy objects. It can't 'see' targets (unlike active sonar) so it is weird that mines should appear as sonar contacts.
I think that by the 1940s standards, active sonar would't do the trick too. Actually even to this day, mines and underwater terrain can only be seen by the means of a 'high frequency sonar' which is, as I understand it, a very modified type of active sonar - it does not 'ping', for starters: it emmits a silent (for our scope of hearing) high-frequency picth which allows the equipment to 'see' close objects.
But this is modern equipment and no way fleetboats had them.
It would be my diagnostics that you are facing a bug, not a mine.