Its dangerous but sometimes its better to stay at periscope depth with flank speed and head away from target course to gain ground.The escorts will search where they think you fired from and if your diving down in same spot your gonna be pinged.They will passive sonar at first and they cant tell range or depth but just bearing.So if your pointed away from them and using the speed to gain as much distance from initial firing spot.....thats better than if you are at flank speed and pointed down using the speed to get deeper but not really moving away from initial firing spot.Then go silent and adjust course....or maintain course and keep your profile as small as possible by keeping them at your 180 as best as possible.Good luck!
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