I'll look into that. I hadn't noticed, but I don't usually ask for a Balao anyway, although I have had one in some of the single missions... which ones though... ?? In the meantime, as you describe the sonar stuff that you're encountering, I've had that in the Gato and the Gar boats that I recall, including in a Gar just the day before, in a mission I made myself for when I was testing the crash dive sequence. I put one single merchant in the mission, 20k out, so that there was an attainable objective, and I decided to go find it and sink it directly, knowing of course, where the ship would be. As I headed that way, I got a sonar tail WAY out. I was more than a little surprised, and have no idea how it did that, since I was doing either flank or full. I hit the "report nearest contact" button, and started getting incessant reports. Way too many reports followed... But, I slowed down to standard to begin the tracking process, thinking that I must be close already, and then the tail up and disappeared for about 5 minutes. I slowed to 1/3 at the start of that stretch, thinking that I was making too much noise going through the water. But never got the sonar back. So I changed direction a pinch and went back up to Ahead Full, and about 30 seconds later, there's the sonar tail again. When I got a "visual" on the ship finally about five minutes later, I could not see it at all. I used the look-outs report of 42 degrees, pointed the scope there, and got a lock. Still couldn't see it in the scope, but there it was on the chart. Then the sonar tail went away again for like another five minutes. A little odd...
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