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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
Not too sure about being totally undetectable sat on the sea bed
There are more than a couple of accounts of warships dropping DCs on what they thought were sub targets only to find out later were wrecks
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We also have no accounts from submariners for whom it didn't work; and with good reason.
I've related before the story of my aerodynamicist friend talking about the famous dive rate of the P-47 thunderbolt. Every time someone says "Yeah, they always got away from the Germans by out-diving them!", my friend replies "Well, except for the ones who didn't; and they ain't talking!"