Planes have sonar now ?

SteamWake · 06-22-07, 10:39 AM

Last night we had finished a photo recon mission and I witnessed two strange occurances.

We laid in the deeper water at a dead stop for several hours waiting for daylight and studying the pickets patterns. Once the sun came up we worked out an approach when the pickets would be the furthest away.

The recon was of a carrier TF we got the picture(s) just fine and set up some shots. I fired 4 torps at the one carrier and set up on the other. The plan was to fire off the remaining 2 fore tubes and the come about quickly to bring the rear tubes to bear.

With the two fore tubes launched we began our turn. Well about this time the first 4 impacted the first carrier and down she went. As we were working out the solution for the aft tubes the 5th torpedo found her mark and Kablooeee the second carrier went in a ball of fire ! One single torpedo !... sunk a carrier

the 6th impacted as well but she was already in flames and sinking. (sorry I dident ID the targets).

We slinked out of the bay as the pickets raced to where we 'were' and searched fruitlessly.

We sailed out of visual range of the pickets and surfaced to phone in a report. The report was recieved and we got further orders.

Just to be safe we submerged again to avoid air attacks untill sunset. We had run for several hours at TC of around 256. About this time my wife came into the room to 'chat' so I put the view to exterior and let the game run at 1x while talking to her. As we were talking I hear the familiar drone of aircraft engines and all of a sudden BOOM ! BOOM !.

"Are you being attacked ?" my wife asked ? "I dont know" I replied. What the hell were at 165' running at 1/3 and had been there for hours. If they were trying to bomb me there waisting their time. How in the heck did they find me ?

06-22-07, 10:39 AM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Planes have sonar now ? Last night we had finished a photo recon mission and I witnessed two strange occurances. We laid in the deeper water at a dead stop for several hours waiting for daylight and studying the pickets patterns. Once the sun came up we worked out an approach when the pickets would be the furthest away. The recon was of a carrier TF we got the picture(s) just fine and set up some shots. I fired 4 torps at the one carrier and set up on the other. The plan was to fire off the remaining 2 fore tubes and the come about quickly to bring the rear tubes to bear. With the two fore tubes launched we began our turn. Well about this time the first 4 impacted the first carrier and down she went. As we were working out the solution for the aft tubes the 5th torpedo found her mark and Kablooeee the second carrier went in a ball of fire ! One single torpedo !... sunk a carrier the 6th impacted as well but she was already in flames and sinking. (sorry I dident ID the targets). We slinked out of the bay as the pickets raced to where we 'were' and searched fruitlessly. We sailed out of visual range of the pickets and surfaced to phone in a report. The report was recieved and we got further orders. Just to be safe we submerged again to avoid air attacks untill sunset. We had run for several hours at TC of around 256. About this time my wife came into the room to 'chat' so I put the view to exterior and let the game run at 1x while talking to her. As we were talking I hear the familiar drone of aircraft engines and all of a sudden BOOM ! BOOM !. "Are you being attacked ?" my wife asked ? "I dont know" I replied. What the hell were at 165' running at 1/3 and had been there for hours. If they were trying to bomb me there waisting their time. How in the heck did they find me ?