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Originally Posted by ollie1983
Oh and whilst we are at it, I have come across a wickedly good tactic.
Suppose you are facing a collection of surface contacts and have good solutions on them and you are in fairly deep water- at least 600ft.
Creep up to the surface, quietly, whilst loading up with harpoons or TASMs but keep one tube loaded with a MOSS.
Get within launching depth, then fire off your antiship missiles. Then fire the MOSS on a bearing away from your position.
Obviously the enemy will spot your launch datum and begin launching their own weapons or deploying helos to that area.
After launching your MOSS, turn away and get deep as fast as you can without cavitation. You will have a couple of minutes at most to get out of there before airborne torpedos arrive. You will be dived down and out of sight by then, the first thing their weapons will spot will be the MOSS. With luck they will chase it thousands of yards away and the distraction alone from that will keep the surface ships occupied.
Done it several times now.  |
1) Missiles should not be used in general. They pretty much gives away your launch position if anyone have active radar running (or even the good old Mark I eyeball).
2) They can get shot down easily by some of the more modern units (for the era).
The only time I use missile is to finish off a damaged target or against support ships after the escort have been eliminated