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Originally Posted by JU_88
Ha, nice find, well I say let the planes a little charitable wiggle room on the power of their 20mm - to compensate for their overall stupidity, predictability, massivley easy detection, inability to shoot fixed guns at all at certain attack angles and pretty poor bomb accuracy. when you factor all that in, what's a little damage buff to their cannons? And TBH if I fight them rather than evade, well maybe I deserve the hull integrity of a collander
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I asked chatGPT for statistics and numbers about losses and this is what I got:
The exact number of attacks where aircraft actually detected and attacked a submarine varies by source, but approximately 2,500-3,000 attacks were recorded during World War II.
Breakdown by year (approximate data):
1942 - about 500 attacks, as aircraft were not yet that effective.
1943 - the peak of combat, about 1,000-1,500 attacks, due to improved detection technology.
1944-1945 - about 700-1,000 attacks, as submarines began to avoid surface navigation due to the threat of aircraft.
Not every attack resulted in a sinking:
On average, only 10-15% of attacks ended in the sinking of the submarine.
Another 20-30% caused serious damage, forcing the submarine to abort the mission.
The remaining 50-70% of attacks either did not cause critical damage, or the attack was unsuccessful (the submarine managed to go under water).
Reasons for unsuccessful attacks:
Weather conditions - poor visibility and rough seas interfered with aiming.
Submarine maneuvers - sharp turns and emergency diving.
Aiming problems - depth charges often exploded either too early or too late.
Anti-aircraft fire - submarines could sometimes repel an attack, especially in 1943-1944, when they began to be armed with 20-37 mm anti-aircraft guns.
Thus, out of approximately 15,000 submarine-hunting sorties, approximately 2,500–3,000 ended in attacks, and approximately 300–350 submarines were sunk (success rate ~10–15%).