Silent running, Stealth vs Detection

Jimbuna · 05-06-09, 12:49 PM

If your harbour raiding, the chances are that you are in very shallow water (10-25 metres on average). How can you expect an ASW not to detect you? Even at silent running it is odds on you will be detected.

Try the Scneider cloaking device

Shadowblade · 05-08-09, 10:50 AM

yes, I was in shallow waters, but I didnt know that I am automatically detected by ASW ships there, because that ASW trawler was far from my sub so I've thought that I was quite safe from the enemy hydrophones...

Was it acoustic or visual (automatic) detection ? What about night harbour raiding, are my chances to be stealthy better in night ?

How deep sea needs sub to be really stealthy in silent runnning mode ? I understand - no shallow waters , but what about open sea ?

Jaman · 05-08-09, 11:16 AM

GWX manual has a secction at the end of it about harbor attacks, but i think this line sums it all pretty well

"The GWX Team recommends players stay out of enemy harbors"

05-06-09, 12:49 PM	#1
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,769 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	If your harbour raiding, the chances are that you are in very shallow water (10-25 metres on average). How can you expect an ASW not to detect you? Even at silent running it is odds on you will be detected. Try the Scneider cloaking device __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

05-08-09, 10:50 AM	#2
Shadowblade Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 718 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	yes, I was in shallow waters, but I didnt know that I am automatically detected by ASW ships there, because that ASW trawler was far from my sub so I've thought that I was quite safe from the enemy hydrophones... Was it acoustic or visual (automatic) detection ? What about night harbour raiding, are my chances to be stealthy better in night ? How deep sea needs sub to be really stealthy in silent runnning mode ? I understand - no shallow waters , but what about open sea ? __________________ Kapitänleutnant Vlad von Carstein - U-Flotilla Saltzwedel - U-123, Type IXB SH3 GWX 3.0

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05-08-09, 11:16 AM	#3
Jaman Gunner Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 95 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	GWX manual has a secction at the end of it about harbor attacks, but i think this line sums it all pretty well "The GWX Team recommends players stay out of enemy harbors"