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Originally Posted by nionios
AFAIK,you can't be detected by warships sonar while on surface.Can someone else confirm this?
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They can't see you on sonar but their eyes are mighty sharp so they don't have to.
As far as sonar use on the surface, in reality the sonar operator was required to keep his post while the boat was surfaced and until ordered to stand down by the captain. They could and expected to develop contacts while on the surface. Although the sonic sonar head was on deck there were two supersonic sonar heads under the forward torpedo room of the submarine and they would work fine up to about 10 knots. Near as I remember TMO is not supposed to have any sonar operation on the surface at all, at any speed. Let me test that out.
Now, how are you determining that you have sonar at high speed on the surface? You do know that on the surface the lines are radar lines and sonar lines can't be plotted at the same time as radar lines, right? Are you actually manning the sonar operator's position and listening to targets while running at high speed to confirm that is exactly what you see?