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Originally Posted by To be
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Originally Posted by Castout
This time I saved the changes I made and now my Seawolf is virtually undetectable like it is supposed to be in RL thanks to its pump jet propulsion system.
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Well to be honest the Seawolf (in LWAMI) is perhaps slightly undermodeled, but not terribly so I imagine. You certainly can't go running around at 25 knots and expect not to be detected. It is good, and one of the best subs in the world (I would guess it is pretty much equivilent to the Virginias) but it just isn't that good.
Additionally, the pump-jet is quieter, but not silent, and has been used on other subs besides the seawolf, such as the British Trafalgar class. So in reality you probably made the sim highly unrealistic. |
Well I have read somewhere that at 25 knots the Seawolf is quieter than a Los Angeles class tied at pier. In DW it is stated to have a silent speed of 25 knots. 10 times as quiet as the improved Los Angeles class submarine and 70 times as quiet as the original Los Angeles class submarine.
So I expect it to be as quiet as a 5 knots Los Angeles class when running at 25 knots. And that is extremely quiet imo.
So it must have extremely advanced stealth performance.
But again the military are also known to have exaggerated its wonder machine performance in order to win continuous funding to help justify its enormous expenses.
But I intend to further play with the parameter. Maybe I need to increase the passive noise a bit.
I realize this is all just guessing but I really think the default LWAMI Seawolf performance is really undermodeled. I don't feel confident riding the Seawolf in its default LWAMI state.