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Thing is, a sonar ping is a transient, directional thing right? Allied soundmen could hear it if the sub made a ranging ping (I assume).
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Hum there was nothing such as an active sonar/ranging ping available on a U-Boot, maybe except for a very few number of them who may have been fitted with some active equipment... right?
I guess the presence of such gear in SH3 is somewhat fictionnal (the same with the ingame early availability of the type XXI boats).
But in the eventuality such equipement was available, yes technically speaking a ping would be heard by anyone in range with hydrophones, or even without them.
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when you launch a torp, everybody knows about it.
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Yep, but Dangerous Waters/Contemporary sonar assets are omnidirectionnal, while a lot of WW2 hydrophones were often directionnal (aka you have to turn the wheel/the switch to listen in a given direction) (btw please tell me if Im wrong...). I suppose anyway that monitoring primitive omni-directional equipement, such as the first sonoboys, must have been quite a pain in the **s without an electric screen...