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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
Actually, torpedoes are the present-day favored weapon for anti-surface warfare and it's actually not that different from how a WWII sub skipper would do it, except that you don't necessarily have to use the periscope. I still would, just as a last-minute check, but you can use your sonar and ESM to build your firing solution in advance.
Torpedoes are potentially a lot more accurate at long ranges, for sure, but depending on the acoustics, detection ranges are variable, more so than they were in WWII. In the right environmental conditions, it's unlikely that weapons would be employed at any better ranges than was typical in WWII.
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That has me wondering, why use the periscope at all . . . why not have a sensor that your can pop up to the surface that has a visual sensor on it that can look around . . . and once it has done its job, reel it back down and retrieve it for later usage . . . or cut it with a small explosive charge to have it self destruct. Why put your boat so close to the surface and in effect make it so vunerable?