8?
cmon! was it a frigate "pack attack"?
i tell you what though, i had one dropped right on my head by a helo last night.
i was using an akula, it was a the SD breakout mission in which your position (off the san diego coast) is compromised (due to the incompetence of one of your crew) to an oliver hazard perry class frigate, and his helo minion.
you have to clear 15 NM of the area w/o detection. well of course i was detected because i blew the frigate out of the water using a wire guided 65 cm torpedo.
i couldnt resist. one less to deal w/ right? it was a lucky shot because it was from very long range.
anyway, i'm almost outside the 15 NM area traveling south @ five knots.
stupid me decides to go to radar depth because i wasnt getting anything on the sonar, fearing something else (aka a los angeles class SSN) would be waiting for me right near the goal.
the ECM picks up the helo, and radar places it about 45km away, closing rapidly from the north.
the good news? no sub. the bad? active sonar intercept picks up a 20k+ hz pinging me from bearing 155.
literally five seconds later..."con, sonar, TIW...bearing 158." lovely.
it acquired quite rapidly from bearing 158.
right away i gave the order to all ahead flank, in the opposite direction, because i know i dont even have time to use NB sonar to get a make/put a tracker on it, let alone be able to hear it going that fast.
i start making 40 degree turns to port/starboard @ about 500 meters depth, listening to the torp's active sonar ping intervals get smaller and smaller by the second.
countermeasures were released at this time. first the passive, then the active a few seconds later, making sure to reload both immediately after that, just incase.
i keep turning, relative bearing away from 158. reduced speed to 4 kts. went hard to starboard, released another passive countermeasure. blew the ballast. up we go. stopped our ascent right around radar depth again.
i didnt even bother surfacing or trying to look for the helo in an attempt to get out the 'ol RPG, figured it'd be best if i just gtf outta dodge before it launches another one.
the last CM must've done the trick because the active sonar stopped and i lived to tell the tale.
dove back down to roughly maximum depth and snailed away @ 4 knots to freedom.
a good thing too because the high pressure air tanks were spent, and for some reason, werent recharging either, even @ ventilation depth.
it was close.
what did i learn? not to use ECM or the radar if i know theres a pissed off helo lurking.
incidentally, since we're on the topic of evading, there are some good points contained here:
http://www.commanders-academy.com/wi...sonar_.28NB.29