Detection in game & reality

[Deamon]

Originally Posted by BladeHeart

...With the hydrophone I can pick up a potential target 20km+ away.
How come given how accurate the game is in many respects, it differs here? :hmm:

On one occasion in WWI a german u-boat in the atlantic detected a convoy with the hydrophones 100km away! What about that ? :P

But that were rare exceptions. In reality the possible detection range varies dramaticaly dependent on the sea state, sound speed profile, season, water depth, bottom type, plancton and algea populaition in the are of propagation. In winter for example you would achiev twice the range under the same conditions as in summer. But well if SHIII doesn't simulate all this aspects than it maybe has pretty fixed ranges and that is what can be complained about but 20+ kilometers in favourable conditions is pretty ok, especialy if it's a convoy. A convoy is always mutch further detectable than a single ship, this is also what needs to be taken in account when complaining the sonar model.

If you want to learn more about the ditails start maybe here:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/...0/syllabus.htm

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Deamon