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loede · 04-01-16, 05:02 AM

Hi everyone,

I would like to ask for your advice on a pretty general tactical question, if I may:

How do I - as a submarine driver - avoid detection from ASW helicopters/aircraft? Whenever I am confronted with airborne ASW assets, I am pretty much screwed. I have no idea on how to evade them and always get killed fairly quickly.

To be clear, I am not so worried about torpedo evasion (since at that point, things have gone downhill anyway). Rather, I would like to avoid detection altogether.

So far, I have been unsuccessful with high or low speeds, as well as with sprint-and-drift tactics and jumping between layers. And surfacing in order to deploy surface-to-air missiles seems suicidal and not very realistic.

My general thoughts on this come from my favourite book ("The Shipkiller" by Justin Scott), where a sailor on the run on his sailing yacht says something along the lines of: "I am like a fish in a barrel. I cannot hide inside the barrel. So my only chance is to hide the barrel itself." I have no idea, how to achieve this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Loede

04-01-16, 05:02 AM	#1
loede Swabbie Join Date: May 2014 Location: Bremen, Germany Posts: 8 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	How to evade ASW helos and aircraft Hi everyone, I would like to ask for your advice on a pretty general tactical question, if I may: How do I - as a submarine driver - avoid detection from ASW helicopters/aircraft? Whenever I am confronted with airborne ASW assets, I am pretty much screwed. I have no idea on how to evade them and always get killed fairly quickly. To be clear, I am not so worried about torpedo evasion (since at that point, things have gone downhill anyway). Rather, I would like to avoid detection altogether. So far, I have been unsuccessful with high or low speeds, as well as with sprint-and-drift tactics and jumping between layers. And surfacing in order to deploy surface-to-air missiles seems suicidal and not very realistic. My general thoughts on this come from my favourite book ("The Shipkiller" by Justin Scott), where a sailor on the run on his sailing yacht says something along the lines of: "I am like a fish in a barrel. I cannot hide inside the barrel. So my only chance is to hide the barrel itself." I have no idea, how to achieve this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Loede