Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Captain Dave

I agree with you, only dive when necessary. Heck, I even take pot shots at aircraft from time to time.

OOOOOOO, that's against my religion. I look at it this way. To shoot at the plane, you must be on the surface, so you and the plane have about even odds of survival. So your hugely expensive submarine with 70 highly trained and difficult to replace crew aboard are duking it out with 50-50 chance with a cheap and quick to produce plane with maybe two people in it.

The cost-benefit ratio is just wacko. If you win, you don't win very much at all. They'll have a new plane and crew in the air in a week. But if you lose it will take months to produce a replacement submarine and probably years to develop a new crew with the proficiency of the one you lost.

Odds are even. Would you bet a million dollars against an opponent's 1 dollar, so you're playing for a dollar and he stands to win a million? Of course not, but that's the game when you take pot shots at aircraft.