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A straight 90 shot on a convoy is acutally a bad thing to do, because its near impossible to time your shots, on top of that, you'll have overlapping targets if you come in at a slight angle to the convoy. In this scenario, youve just skipped the lead escort, and the side guarding one will pass astern of you. Shoot your fish.
This isnt a hard solution for every encounter. Sometimes you'll have to get creative. if theres ALOT of escorts, you'll have to approach the convoy bows on to keep your aspect low, and then pull a hard turn when your past the escort screen and on the firing position to bring your tubes to bear. The fly in the ointment in that scenario, is you'll make alot of noise to bring your tubes to bear in time because your window of opportunity to fire is very narrow.
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I will disagree about the 90 degreen thing being a 'hard shot' as it provides the largest angular target possible and the shortest torpedo run distance and the greatest percision of knowing where the target is angularly. The chance for hitting over targets in the case of a miss I don't know either way.
My complaint is that aspect should have DIDDLY to do with getting detected by passive hydrophones. Why would the broadside of a sub sound any different than the front? I understand the difference in aspect when active sonar is concerned, but active sonar is not being used to detect me.
I am also incredulous on if a DD would realistically be able to detect a subarmine that was dark as shadow no matter how close overhead it got, especially while running at 9 kts.
The 2 oclock entry is of course very good advice, less attainable when attacking a 21 kt task force of course because of the increase in the number of DDs and the higher reletive speed.