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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann
Keep the big picture in mind and try to think what you would do to find and kill U-boats if you were an allied commander. Its hard to do that when you are in the thick of it... but doing so will put you one step ahead.
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I am... I can stay submerged during the whole day, go slowly till my batteries empty, no sonar contacts for the whole time, change course, surface during the dark night and... hello, wanna eat a bomb? I stopped going all day submerged cause I didn't have time to recharge, compress air etc, missed contact reports. I keep radio silence. Trust me I do what I should, I've learned my lessons. There are rare and short moments I can proceed normally.
DD have a very small capability of radar detection but planes... I can dive just after a warning and very often they drop bombs very precisely into my position... good that I have 70m of water till than.