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Submarine Tactics

moon puppy

moon puppy

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Almost every WWII sub movie has the scene.

"Put her on the bottom"

Then we'd see the sub sitting on a nice sandy spot in the harbor waiting for dark to surface and blow up everything in site.

So the question is, did they actually do this? Intentionally?

I'm pretty sure they would never do this with our modern nuke subs.

Just a question I've always wondered about. :skipper
 
Well I am going to have to dig, but I suspect not. Mostly because the subs of that time could not readily (or intentionally) dive to great depth. Most of the coral ref bays were too shallow to really get into with a sub, and most of the open ocean was for too deep.

Me-thinks this a plot line to build suspencse, and justify the model builder budget
 
Hey found a neat site!

http://www.uboat.net/index.html

doesn't really answer the question directly. According to this source, the post-war Diele-electrics subs can:
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2004/August/Pages/Diesel_Submarines3451.aspx

So a mixed bag, I reckon
 
The short answer, yes they can and did, within depth limits and gambling on the sea floor composition (hitting rocks or getting stuck in the mud/slit).

Modern diesel-electrics can sit on the bottom. Most nuclear subs have their seawater intakes on the bottom so they would suck in the sand and mud. Modern subs, with their more circular cross section and lower centre of gravity, would require constant adjustments to the ballast tanks to keep them from rolling over in ocean currents acting on the sail.

Cheers,
Rich
 
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