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Originally Posted by Navigator777
In my opinion, anti-aircraft fire from a submarine prevents aircraft from aiming accurately and they do not drop bombs and only fire from machine guns. If you start to dive, then nothing interferes with the aircraft and they begin an attack with bombs. Under anti-aircraft fire, if aircraft do carry out bombing, then the probability of a miss and inaccuracy of this will be higher. By the way, I asked chatGPT about 57 mm guns and he answered that U-976 was sunk from such guns in March 1944. I looked on the uboat. net website about this boat. It says there that the U-976 boat was sunk on March 25, 1944 in the Bay of Biscay southwest of Saint-Nazaire by fire from two British Mosquito aircraft. It is not specified whether they were armed with guns.
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Aircraft AI is bare bone basic in SH3 and we cant even fix the stupidly steep attack angle of their attacking dive - E.g every plane with 'dive bomber' characteristics dives like Stuka, Even the sunderlands, where as in IRL that thing could barley even take off, let alone recover from a 45 degree dive at low alitude! :P Only othe roption is 'level bomber' mode, but then they bomb your boat in the same way they would carpet bomb a factory in Berlin - which is even more stupid.
There is certainly no way put off their aim by shooting at them, they just aint smart or sophisticated enough for any of that and they often dont even value their own self preservation that much, undeterred by AAA and merrily flying in to mountains. Also when SH3 planes run out of bombs (or dummy bombs) they often just enter a controlled but suicidal decending death sprial in to the sea. So yeah... we can only expect so much from them.
Biggest factor in Uboat Vs Aircraft combat in SH3 is your speed. if you are going at ahead flank, the plane will struggle to get its bombs on target, but likewise, your own AAA crew will struggle to land hits on it. Go slow or all stop, and you are both much, much eaiser targets for each other.
Also if an aircraft bombs you from your Aft, They are far more deadly and score multiple hits along the length of your boats hull, rather than just one - potentially ending you in a single pass. so if you see a plane coming in for a run on your 180, it would be very wise to make a turn.