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AO1_AW_SW_USN · 03-10-06, 08:45 PM

If you are running IUB 10.2 look really close, some of the Tug Boats carries a deck gun and a small rack of DC's. I don't know if it's in the vanilla SH3 or in RUB, but look anyway.

During the Cold War, England and the US used fishing trawlers and sea going Tug Boats as ASW platforms called SURTASS boats. They appared to be going about doing regular civillian work like net fishing. In reality they used towed array cables with thousands of microphones listening for Soviet submarines.

I wonder if they did the same in WWII? I'll do some research. Maybe then it will justify giving those targets the “Deep-6”.

03-10-06, 08:45 PM	#10
AO1_AW_SW_USN Loader Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas, Texas USA Posts: 85 Downloads: 106 Uploads: 0	If you are running IUB 10.2 look really close, some of the Tug Boats carries a deck gun and a small rack of DC's. I don't know if it's in the vanilla SH3 or in RUB, but look anyway. During the Cold War, England and the US used fishing trawlers and sea going Tug Boats as ASW platforms called SURTASS boats. They appared to be going about doing regular civillian work like net fishing. In reality they used towed array cables with thousands of microphones listening for Soviet submarines. I wonder if they did the same in WWII? I'll do some research. Maybe then it will justify giving those targets the “Deep-6”. __________________ Give me an Army of West Point Graduates, and I'll win a battle... give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war!! George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)