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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
... And second, submerged firing based on hydrophone contact alone was so inaccurate as to be a waste of torpedoes. IIRC, there was never a successful hydrophone-only attack made by any submarine of any nation during the war....
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Although the initial contact was confirmed by periscope, the rest of the attack was plotted by hydrophone bearings and predicted in 3 dimensions in the only recorded action of its kind...
HM Submarine Venturer sinks U-864 while both were submerged:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_9_February_1945
How many of us are so paranoid that we zig-zag submerged to avoid detection?
KH