Severe weather tactics

Keelbuster · 02-13-07, 12:10 PM

I tend to agree with Mookie. It's usually not worth the risk. Although if I can't resist (sometimes I'll be shadowing a convoy for days hoping the weather will let up) and I have enough data on the convoy's course, i'll plot an intercept on a convoy in a storm. I'll approach such that I expect to go right through the center of it at a perpendicular course. I stay at periscope depth so that i can dive if a collision is imminent. By drifting through the convoy, I might get lucky and get a 90 abeam shot on something and take it out. Or i might get nothing. Bad weather = bad acoustics, and hence evading is easy if you're detected. I don't go for anything more aggressive than that - I definitely don't go in surfaced. That's suicide. Escorts can see through fog with radar. However, in high seas, I find they are virtually deaf - especially if you are at periscope depth.

Kb

02-13-07, 12:10 PM	#3
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I tend to agree with Mookie. It's usually not worth the risk. Although if I can't resist (sometimes I'll be shadowing a convoy for days hoping the weather will let up) and I have enough data on the convoy's course, i'll plot an intercept on a convoy in a storm. I'll approach such that I expect to go right through the center of it at a perpendicular course. I stay at periscope depth so that i can dive if a collision is imminent. By drifting through the convoy, I might get lucky and get a 90 abeam shot on something and take it out. Or i might get nothing. Bad weather = bad acoustics, and hence evading is easy if you're detected. I don't go for anything more aggressive than that - I definitely don't go in surfaced. That's suicide. Escorts can see through fog with radar. However, in high seas, I find they are virtually deaf - especially if you are at periscope depth. Kb __________________