So... I'm cruising for targets last night and pick up a contact 13 miles out. I have all the time in the world to set up a Dick O'kane attack and my sub is sitting at all stop 650 yds from his track with silent running on just waiting for him to cross 200° so I can unlease a volley from the rear tubes. I am sitting at 70' as sonar tracks him and I move up to 50' and raise the scope with less than 10 seconds to go before firing. Just before he is going to cross my sights his floodlight comes on and he cranks it up. This was 1-2 seconds before I fired. I walk my 3 shots down the destroyers side but I miss astern with all 3 fish. I go deep(250') and turn as he bears in on me. I present a narrow aspect to him (that probably doesn't matter under this particular scenario) and turn 90° to him when I see from his sonar track that he is going to cross my track. There is no sound of DCs coming but then I get creamed with massive damage and its all over. It seems to me that I always hear the DCs being dropped, but not this time. This was a lone destroyer I feel this was an unrealistic outcome. He didn't ping me until after I fired. How did he know I was there? I was stopped, with silent running on and sitting at 70'. Dazed and confused at the bottom of the pacific, Urge
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