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Originally Posted by Paulski
What I meant is; won't the escorts hear me when I dive with my engines at full speed, before torpedo impact?
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It depends.
I've attacked convoys (at least early in the war) and fired off all my eels on slow which gave me enough time to get quite deep (running at full ahead) and a good distance away from my attack position before anything went boom. I had not been spotted by the escorts and if there was ASDIC in use it did not pick me up. I was rigged for silent running during my approach and attack and if they had passive sonar working that didn't pick me up either.
The point being, they gave no signs of knowing I was around until after the eels hit, by which time I'd already had ample time to put some distance and depth between myself and the spot I was in when I attacked. It also didn't hurt that I put myself on a course that took me directly under the remainder of the convoy and let them pass over me.
Now it may have been a very inexperienced escort, whereas an "elite" group might have gotten a bead on me before I had a chance to get the eels off, in which case it would've been a different story. And if you are playing later in the war, the escorts and their technology will be far better and the likelihood of getting off a convoy attack and getting away clean are slim indeed.