Active Sonar?

1480 · 03-18-08, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by elanaiba

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Originally Posted by WernerSobe

They did have active sonar.

Only old boats with outdated hydrophones did not have it. But Balkongerät definetely had active sonar. Balkongerät was famous for being able to calculate firing solution using only active and passive sonar.

Can you provide a source for that information?

In Another Place, Another Time, Werner Hirschmann on pages 230-231 describes the GHG passive sonar AND the S-Gerat active sonar that were mounted on at least the type 9. He says it was good for ranging up to 6 miles.

Update: I don't know a lick of German and I hope none of this is bad but:

Sondergerät: Aktives Unterwasserschall-Ortungsgerät der dt. Kriegsmarine zur Entfernungs- und Richtungsbestimmung von Unterwasserzielen