Tactics and skill. Play the game as if your life is at stake.
Even in the stock game, aircraft aren't as much of a problem as many claim. Once you fit your Sboat with air radar, dive below scope depth before the plane comes in sight and stay there for a while. Go slow and stay submerged until dark if you have to. Once you have been discovered, all available aircraft will be vecored to your location. This can last for days. Irritating and avoidable. It's a lot easier to avoid the few planes that happen to be searching near you than the 20-30 planes that get sent right to your location. It's almost inpossible for a fleet boat to get caught unaware by aircraft unless you are ignoring the game. If you don't have SD radar, you should not be on the surface in clear conditions in enemy water during the day.
When found by destroyers, the above advice is right on. Go flank and turn away to minimum profile. Get going as fast as you can then crash dive. Be aware CD places your propulsion immediately on battery so you will slow down very fast. As soon as your boat starts to lower in the water, the incoming shells will start to miss with larger errors as it becomes more difficult for the enemy to judge distance and mast height. Don't hang around. Immediately go deep and while at high speed, make a 30 deg turn and go silent letting your momentum finish the turn. The surface ship will pound the area where they saw you submerge. You don't want to be there. You also don't want to advertise your new location while you slink away. Unless you're being attacked directly, turn off Battle Stations (if activated) because that feature makes a lot of noise.
In the stock game, 9000 yards is close to maximum visible range for all craft in the game which is about 4.5 miles. If the weather conditions are poor, max vis range can be much lower than this. If I'm sailing in clear with no fog out beyond the furthest allied base, I'm ultra cautious as the enemy can show up any time. The exception is Marshals where you are only going to get enemy aircraft and few if any. DD crew skill vary widely and some will blast you out of the water in no time and others will act as if you aren't there for a while, then slowly put 2 and 2 together. Best to play safe and play as if it's your goal to be aware of everyone else before you are aware of you. Even at worst, your sonar operator can detect enemy DDs long before they come in visual range (unless you have tired them out with excessive BS) or have poor quality ratings assigned to the position.
Tactics and skill. Don't blame everything on what is percieved as unrealistic.
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