Active/Passive Sonar and torpedo issue

Midnight Hunter · 03-12-08, 05:12 PM

I have a quick question to ask about sonar ranges etc... I was sitting in a juicy spot last night, I was 2000 yards off the port side of a convoy sitting at all stop at periscope depth, rigged for silent running(with my scope down). There was a minesweeper in the lead, 4 liners of various sizes/shapes and a subchaser pulling up the rear. I appeared to be sitting pretty and was waiting for the opportune angle to fire at the first liner in the convoy when suddenly, when the minesweeper got to my 0° bearing he turned hard to port, came at me like I was waving a flag or shooting off fireworks. I heard no "pings" from any active sonar searching, and there was no sound from my vessel for passive sonar to pick up. Did they happen to have an all seeing eye on board or something:hmm: ?? I am running version 1.4 with TM and RSRD.

Second issue I had was after using all torps and all reserves in one h3ll of a fight, I secured from silent running and noticed my trop crew was reloading non existatnt reserves. I have never encountered this before (mostly because I haven't ever used a full loadout of torpedoes in one outing (I know never return to base with torps right guys!!) Anyways, just wanted to toss those questions out and hope that someone maybe had an answer or two. Thanks so much all

03-12-08, 05:12 PM	#1
Midnight Hunter Mate Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 56 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Active/Passive Sonar and torpedo issue I have a quick question to ask about sonar ranges etc... I was sitting in a juicy spot last night, I was 2000 yards off the port side of a convoy sitting at all stop at periscope depth, rigged for silent running(with my scope down). There was a minesweeper in the lead, 4 liners of various sizes/shapes and a subchaser pulling up the rear. I appeared to be sitting pretty and was waiting for the opportune angle to fire at the first liner in the convoy when suddenly, when the minesweeper got to my 0° bearing he turned hard to port, came at me like I was waving a flag or shooting off fireworks. I heard no "pings" from any active sonar searching, and there was no sound from my vessel for passive sonar to pick up. Did they happen to have an all seeing eye on board or something:hmm: ?? I am running version 1.4 with TM and RSRD. Second issue I had was after using all torps and all reserves in one h3ll of a fight, I secured from silent running and noticed my trop crew was reloading non existatnt reserves. I have never encountered this before (mostly because I haven't ever used a full loadout of torpedoes in one outing (I know never return to base with torps right guys!!) Anyways, just wanted to toss those questions out and hope that someone maybe had an answer or two. Thanks so much all