They can only detect you with active sonar (if you go 5kts). To lower this chance, face pingers directly to minimize reflective area. Do some course alternations to get better TMA, since you will use only one sensor (sphere). But stay at pingers average heading +- 10 degrees, +-30 at maximum.
Start shooting at escorts, no matter what torpedoes you use. You just want them to react. They will evade and will break formation. Then attack target with best torpedoes you have. You can also turn sideway for a while to get tracks from the other sensor array. Sometimes the target will also react on torpedoes targeted on escorts, and you should notice that.
There is no reason for going deep. Situation awareness is more important.
You can go deep after the attack, or when there is a layer. But layer only works at some distance. When you hear the pings, they can hear returns.
When running away, again, point your tail directly at pingers. It will be much harder to see you for them.
Shoot at escorts in the moment target is safely in range. Wakehomers are great for chasing escorts (and killing them too), but for target i prefer passive mode. Wakehomers tends to follow ANY wake, so sometimes it is hard to make them hit the ship you want. Wireguided torpedoes are even better, and kilo's tests are pretty usable for that.
Also if you see escorts are runnings fast, which they will when evading and also when returning to the formation, you can assume they can't hear you at all.
Watch for the helos. Do EWR and scope scan before the attack. They won't be able to launch them during the attack most probably, but surviving escorts will launch them for sure later. You should not be there at that time however.
Kilo has however really too few torpedoes for such tasks. You may try to make perfect shot with wakehomers at the target. Make perfect solution, choose ideal activation point .. take evasion into account .. then fire & forget. This is more likely Kilo tactic.
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