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Originally Posted by Pisces
Something that is not yet mentioned [whoops, missed sublynx' point 6] is your orientation to the incomming destroyers as they are pinging. You return a much stronger signal when you are pointed perpendicular to the direction to the pinging warship. Don't give them your flank, but try to line up with them making your reflective surface as small as possible.
Roughly speaking, when the destroyer is on the 330 or 030 bearing then you are still showing halve of your maximum reflective surface when showing your broadside.
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Another factor that hasn't been mentioned was the tactic of lead escorts pinging "on spec". I know from first-person accounts that the IJN, at least, used this tactic, and I have seen it used in SH4. I don't know if it was part of UK/Us ASW doctrine. But the purpose was to force the prudent sub commander to take evasive action to avoid being caught in the search cone. Hopefully, this would cause subs lying in ambush positions on-track to miss their attack opportunity.