Comments on: Military Tuesday : WWII Anti-Submarine Warfare Tactical Lessons from BBC

By: Roys

Roys — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:24:04 +0000

Hi Bruce, thanks for the comment.

Of course, I’m not belittling the Allied effort to containing the U-boat threat. My interpretation was that each manuever was almost always specifically designed for a set-piece encounter and using the wrong manuever would move the destroyers to the wrong positions where they would be helpless to stop the U-boat from destroying the merchantmen in their convoy.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:25:29 +0000

Yes/no, I suggest. To suggest that there were no agreed tactics and that all U-boat defences weer simply random and arbitrary whenever a U-bozt was hunted does grants little credit to the surface forces. In fact there were tremendous amounts of intellectual effkrt put into devising ASW strategies and tactics by British forces.

By: Roys

Roys — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:08:10 +0000

Hi Vidhyadhar, frankly I’m not an expert in ASW tactics.

If you’re referring to the BBC simulation as mentioned above, the tactics used depends more on the scenario and how the fleet commander expects the U-boat to approach for an attack on the fleet. Most of the manuevers listed are only good for a very specific scenario and quite useless for anything that does not fit that particular scenario.

By: vidhyadhar

vidhyadhar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:18:43 +0000

Hi ,

I was searching for some material on ASW tactics and came across this site. I would like to analyse the tactics in form of probability of hit and its worth. what is teh way to do so?