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Originally Posted by Faamecanic
I have noticed most Convoy Escorts are VERY poor if they even try and search at all. Most of the time they STOP with the convoy (or slow down to 2 kts). Only a FEW times (like 3 or so) have they ever come after me.
Now escorts with BATTLE groups.... they are DEADLY! Almost always find me and nuke me out of the water.
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I've experienced incredible and inept escorts in both task forces and convoys, and I don't think that's the issue. When they slow down to 2 knts they're actually not being dumb... they're listening for you and communicating with each other. If they're going fast they can't use their sonar effectively because of their own prop noise. What they
don't seem to do, is figure out bearing from where you must have fired from and motor over there before they start their search. I think if they see your scope or your sub through the water or make a positive sonar contact then they are quite good and very challenging to evade... but if you fire from inside the convoy, well away from the escorts, and go deep before they know what's going on... then they aren't going to vector in and search so they seem incompetent.