Sonar bueys

[thegempster]

do they work and if show how do you use them?

[Disturbed]

You mean the decoys? Yes they work. You have to eqip them on an officer and fire them from the Bold launcher in the rear.

[thegempster]

Originally posted by Disturbed:

You mean the decoys? Yes they work. You have to eqip them on an officer and fire them from the Bold launcher in the rear.

where the hells the bold launcher? lol i dont see it

[thegempster]

Originally posted by thegempster:

Originally posted by Disturbed:

You mean the decoys? Yes they work. You have to eqip them on an officer and fire them from the Bold launcher in the rear.

where the hells the bold launcher? lol i dont see it

never mind once i equip them to a leader it showed up

[athenian]

Originally posted by thegempster:

Originally posted by Disturbed:

You mean the decoys? Yes they work. You have to eqip them on an officer and fire them from the Bold launcher in the rear.

where the hells the bold launcher? lol i dont see it [/qYou launch them from the "Pill Thrower' located on the starboard side in the aft torpedo room

[Ruby]

Originally posted by thegempster:

Originally posted by Disturbed:

You mean the decoys? Yes they work. You have to eqip them on an officer and fire them from the Bold launcher in the rear.

where the hells the bold launcher? lol i dont see it

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[david.mortier]

Hope one day there will be sonobuoys, used against our subs :-)

[El Rushbo]

Originally posted by david.mortier:

Hope one day there will be sonobuoys, used against our subs :-)

That's a bit beyond WWII though.

[thegempster]

Originally posted by El Rushbo:

Originally posted by david.mortier:

Hope one day there will be sonobuoys, used against our subs :-)

That's a bit beyond WWII though.

actually its not the German's had them

[athenian]

Originally posted by thegempster:

Originally posted by El Rushbo:

That's a bit beyond WWII though.

actually its not the German's had them

He;s talking about sonobuoys used to detect submarines, like the aerial ones lowered today into the water by helicopters.

[david.mortier]

Originally posted by athenian:

He;s talking about sonobuoys used to detect submarines

They were frequently thrown after WW2 U-boats (I had the I-52 misadventure in mind)

[Delle(DK)]

In case you guys want to see how it worked in real life.
Then in the new cinema movie named "greyhound" a german submarine drop the acustic boy that basicly is a tube filled with a special chemmical that when it react with water become very hot and there by creating bubbles. This will create noice from a submarine ( back then ) and can comfuse the acustic operator on the destroyer making the destroyer attack a wrong target and waisting their bombs.

tip.. In the movie the acustic boye is working like this.
The ship detect the sub via sonar and ping its location.. But when the ship get to close it can no longer hear the sub since the sonar have a minimum range of like 200m or so.
Then the sonar operator swtich to acustic and listen for the sub and say example sub 200m 30 degree port and the ship turn to sail over the sub.
Now the sub drop its acustic boye and turn example 45-90 degree left.
Due to the noice generated by the acustic device in water is louder than the sub it have success to evade and fool the destroyer so it attack a stationary fake target.
After a minute or so they realize that the target is stationary and they wasted their ammo and the search continue.
But that is how it work. ( not 100% sure about the distance but the method is how its done )

ps.. the movie Greyhound is a really good movie about ww2 destroyers and convoy defence against uboats i recommend to watch it.

[david.mortier]

Originally posted by Delle(DK):

a tube filled with a special chemmical that when it react with water become very hot and there by creating bubbles.

Looks like you're talking about the 'Bold'. It's not a kind of noise maker, it's a sonar decoy. The set of bubbles appears for an ASDIC operator as the image of a submarine.