A question about the Sonar Ping

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

That "ping" (is) the reflection sound, as it bounces off your sub.

In reality you would hear a escort pinging when using active sonar regardless if he had you. Most the time escorts didn't run the seas using active sonar, in some cases could be picked up 50nms away. A few stories of escorts doing this in the war and subs used it to track to the position. That's another failure of the game, you only hear active sonar when you're in it's cone. It's really an obvious advantage to us, we know when we hear pinging we've been located, in reality they didn't.

I assume subs could hear the return ping, knowing then they were in trouble....? I think that's what KM means and no that's not in the game, the subs return ping to the enemy. However, when you sub uses active sonar, we can hear the return ping and get distance to the target which you're aware of......maybe that's what he was referring to as a guess, the return "bong", not the active ping....

Geesh, I confuse myself on these pain meds....

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