Depth-charge turbulence

[Deamon]

Originally Posted by Floater

In a recent depth-charge attack, I confirmed what I'd been suspecting for a while: that the DDs' sonar isn't affected by the turbulence created by recent depth-charge explosions.

And it never was affected in all the WWII sims when i remember right.

This is very disappointing,

I tell ya.

For those that don't know, the detonation of depth-charges cause so much turbulence that all sonar (ASDIC and hydrophone) operations were impossible for several minutes.

And the bubble clouds left in the water for a time gaved asdic returns and allowed the u-boat hide behinde it. The u-boats also liked it to creep away using the DD's wake to hide.

Nothing of it is modeled in all thous sims. But you can bet that i will model it in mys

Captain Donald MacIntyre - an ace ASW destroyer captain and ASW group leader - says in his memoirs (U-boat Killer) that it took about 15 minutes for them to regain sonar capabilities after an attack.

15 minutes ? That's quite long. Were the sonars realy washed out for 15 minutes ?

This aspect was modelled in SH2 - I think it's a 10-minute blindness there -

Are you sure about it ? I'v never noticed that it was modeled in SHII. The DD's always come right above me after eatch run.

Deamon