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RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'??
Posted by: John Griffiths ()
Date: June 19, 2001 03:40PM

<HTML>Whoa!

Good subject - in danger of getting too hot!

The object of ASW - delivered by the airy fairy bunch or by dabtoes - is to sink them before they sink you. I have known helo crews working with Nimrods and Shackletons ping Soviet sub skippers who thought they were too deep to be seen - but in all cases, the Shack / Nim vectored the helo on via MAD....Helo\' alone would have searched in a pattern with bouys before getting a definite ping - the ASW top cover brought that search to a more reasonable ID probability.

In WW2 the most numerous U-boat / sub victims were those caught on the surface.

At 200\' a depth charge delivered by an aircraft would have been hit and miss, surely? Anyway, how would the crew know it was at 200\'? To set charges to ensure a kill would have been guess - not an exact science! Anyway, any shape under the water would have been seen to be a sub when many were whales, water density( colour ) differences, cloud reflection - many aircrew would have had scant time to ping a suspect target flying at the speed they did - and most of the ASW work done by aircraft would have been 75% luck?

Just my theory! Please feel free to correctme if I am wrong - as I am sure some of you will!

Aye,

John</HTML>

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Crews JD Thomas, USN (ret) 06/19/2001 12:16AM
RE: Crews Roy Prince 06/19/2001 01:40AM
RE:200ft..? Ted Armstrong 06/19/2001 07:40AM
RE:200ft..? JD Thomas 06/19/2001 11:28AM
where and when ray schwartz 06/19/2001 02:13PM
RE: where and when Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 02:53PM
RE: where and when jd thomas 06/19/2001 03:42PM
RE: where and when Tim 06/19/2001 10:58PM
U-boat vs A/C Tim 06/20/2001 10:44PM
RE: U-boat vs A/C Tim 06/21/2001 12:25AM
RE: where and when Tim 06/19/2001 11:04PM
RE: where and when JD Thomas 06/19/2001 03:00PM
RE: where and when JD Thomas 06/19/2001 03:01PM
RE: 200\'?? Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 01:24PM
RE: 200\\\'?? JD Thomas 06/19/2001 02:58PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\'?? Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 03:19PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'?? John Griffiths 06/19/2001 03:40PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'?? jdthomas 06/19/2001 03:51PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'?? Jim 06/19/2001 04:02PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ JD Thomas 06/20/2001 09:03PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'?? Rainer Bruns 06/19/2001 04:41PM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ JD Thomas 06/20/2001 09:14PM
RE: 200 Rainer Bruns 06/21/2001 12:38AM
RE: 200\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'?? John Griffiths 06/20/2001 05:33PM
200 ft is too deep kurt 06/19/2001 05:54PM
RE: 200 ft is too deep J.T. McDaniel 06/20/2001 12:09AM


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