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Originally Posted by AndreasT
Later on in the war I do think that they are quite smart. I have attacked ships and suddenly destroyers and planes show up looking for me.
A bit off topic, but I was wondering if in real life could the allies hear the torpedoes coming in. As far as I know late on in the war they could hear an uboot running at silent speed from far away.
Considering the torpedoes are running at a relatively high speed.
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Torpedo detectors were installed on merchants but it seems that more often than not they would pick up the torpedo too late for any effective evasive action to be taken. Allied passive sound gear was in general less capable than german equivalents, they had concentrated development on active sonar instead which was much more useful for them (imagine trying to detect a relatively quiet sub with hydrophones among the cacophony generated by a convoy).