Message from @Nathan James 123
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moot point
Thats the point of it
Not for fuel economy?
Not for detection radius?
When you are at transit speed like 15 knots or so
You are at the most efficient
thats why its transit speed
Thats the range quoted on all ships
Maximum range at most efficient speed which is..transit speed
You would only slow down from transit if you heard something or if you were scared of a sub about
IOf you heard something they know you're there already
youre fucked
Which certainly they would be aware of from intelligence
If your just slowly
Well you better think of everything else that makes a surface ship loud
Undamped pumps
People talking
People moving
Water flowing in the shi
Air con fans and condensers
A sub has designed these things almost out
ALMOST
EVERYTHING is detectable..
By some means or another
Read
ALMOST
That's not in doubt here.
Thanks
So yeah
A surface ship is only detecting a sub first in a very limited number of circumstances
And they all require the sub to either be old as shit or incompetent as fuck
Or any combination thereof
As most subs are
*old*
There you have to remember that most surface passive sonar systems are less effective then their sub surface counterparts
Mainly due to self noise
And other requirements, true
They can't see behind them unless they have a towed array
Which most dont
Most subs do