Decoys

andy_311 · 04-01-12, 05:02 AM

I have a question, now i know decoys are suppose to fool the enemy sonar so you can get away.However if these decoys suppose to make a noise underwater why won't they work on a torpedo?.The reason am askin is on my last patrol I fired a cutie (MK27) and it came back at me,so I deployed decoys to see if that would distract to torpedo but it didn't,I didn't have the option to go deep i was in shallow waters I think about 100feet the only thing the decoy attracted was a dd which funny enough didn't drop it's cans on me and as it passed over me the cutie then latched onto the dd blowing it's screws off.

TorpX · 04-01-12, 09:14 PM

I'm not sure what kind of decoys are modeled in the game, but the simplist type involved ejecting a cannister of material that generated a gas. The gas didn't make noise, it only reflected the pings of enemy escorts. I think better decoy types came along later. Do you get a choice of what kind of decoy when you replenish?

Sidekikd34 · 04-01-12, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by andy_311

I have a question, now i know decoys are suppose to fool the enemy sonar so you can get away.However if these decoys suppose to make a noise underwater why won't they work on a torpedo?.The reason am askin is on my last patrol I fired a cutie (MK27) and it came back at me,so I deployed decoys to see if that would distract to torpedo but it didn't,I didn't have the option to go deep i was in shallow waters I think about 100feet the only thing the decoy attracted was a dd which funny enough didn't drop it's cans on me and as it passed over me the cutie then latched onto the dd blowing it's screws off.

The game states the decoys are the gas bubble canister types, which would have no effect on the passive acoustic homing of a Mk 27. It's hearing your engine, not sending any signal out that you might misdirect in some way. The only way to avoid a Mk 27 coming after you is to stop engines and swerve.

andy_311 · 04-02-12, 06:50 AM

Thanks for the info guys,I didn't know they were gas cannisters,(learn something everyday).

andy_311 · 04-02-12, 03:48 PM

Just a thought people have SSBN's in game homeing torpedoe's,proberbly twin hulled subs, but has anyone made any countermesures against torpedoe's be it there own? seeing we are the only ones that can fire them to a point.?

04-01-12, 05:02 AM	#1
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Decoys I have a question, now i know decoys are suppose to fool the enemy sonar so you can get away.However if these decoys suppose to make a noise underwater why won't they work on a torpedo?.The reason am askin is on my last patrol I fired a cutie (MK27) and it came back at me,so I deployed decoys to see if that would distract to torpedo but it didn't,I didn't have the option to go deep i was in shallow waters I think about 100feet the only thing the decoy attracted was a dd which funny enough didn't drop it's cans on me and as it passed over me the cutie then latched onto the dd blowing it's screws off. __________________

04-02-12, 06:50 AM	#4
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the info guys,I didn't know they were gas cannisters,(learn something everyday). __________________

04-02-12, 03:48 PM	#5
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Just a thought people have SSBN's in game homeing torpedoe's,proberbly twin hulled subs, but has anyone made any countermesures against torpedoe's be it there own? seeing we are the only ones that can fire them to a point.? __________________

04-01-12, 09:14 PM	#2
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I'm not sure what kind of decoys are modeled in the game, but the simplist type involved ejecting a cannister of material that generated a gas. The gas didn't make noise, it only reflected the pings of enemy escorts. I think better decoy types came along later. Do you get a choice of what kind of decoy when you replenish?