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Originally Posted by Nuoz
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Originally Posted by rik007
Yesterday I tried it in a moonless night (1940). First I checked convoy speed by measuring time needed for the ships to travel 300m and then I positioned my u-boot so that I could pass the destroyer at maximum distance but still could reach the rear of the convoy. At low speed I turned in and passed the destroyer at about 2 km who just left the convoy for a search - maybe he heard me. So my U-boot was between the convoy and the destroyer. At 1.5 Km I used the UZO to find the merchants. I must say that it was a fantastic sight to see the ships filling the UZO. I enjoyed it briefly as I was worried about the destroyer that would return and the merchants that could spot me. With two salvo's I destroyed two large merchants. As one ship was stilll exploding the destroyer turned in on me and I dived as fast as I could to sneak under the convoy to disappear silently through the back. A dream experience which I will repeat for sure!
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Are you really immune to hydrophones while surfaced? If you are, it doesnt make much sense to me as i can detect surfaced vessels by hydrophone. I don't get it  |
Hi Nuoz, I'm not saying you are immune and I will not advice to run flank at 1.5 km from the merchants but if the enemies hydrophones do work as well as ours we would be easily detected from miles and miles away and surface attacks would be impossible for sure.
While running slow or standard a surface approach with some waves and dark night it is very well possible.