Actually Submarines are the "Snipers of the Seas" as Imuya and Iku stated.
If you want a true "Sniper of the Seas", German Battleship Scharnhorst fired her 28cm salvos against HMS Glorious from 28,600 yards (16.25 miles) with the use of this surfaced-ship radar.
Actually Submarines are the "Snipers of the Seas" as Imuya and Iku stated.
I prefer "Schrodinger Cats of the Seas" :) Without constantly listening to the sonar and ready with ASW, you don't know if there's something under the water or you're just being paranoid. Worse if they're being silent and just camp in the bottom of the sea waiting for big fish to come.
It's not that submarines are "snipers of the sea", Iku and Imuya got those appellations individually for being the Japanese subs that sank carriers. (Iku also gets her "sniper" title for accidentally damaging a couple extra ships with one spread. Snipers generally don't hold getting a few extra woundings with misses on the primary target as part of their proof of skill...) By the same standards, Albacore, Cavalle, and Sealion II should all be snipers, as well.
Seika said:
I prefer "Schrodinger Cats of the Seas" :) Without constantly listening to the sonar and ready with ASW, you don't know if there's something under the water or you're just being paranoid. Worse if they're being silent and just camp in the bottom of the sea waiting for big fish to come.
Imuya is the fleet's smartphone tapping mermaid
Unlike modern nuclear submarines, the WWII-era submarines couldn't just stay underwater forever. They ran on diesel and battery power, the air recyclers took battery power, and the only way to charge the battery was to run the (oxygen-hog) diesel generators.
The Germans pioneered a "snorkel" that let subs run their diesel generators while still mostly submerged, but you couldn't just sit near the bottom, and you were noisy while running a diesel generator.
Plus, Japanese subs were pretty noisy, anyway, especially by German and American standards, and were pretty easily detected by sonar. (Quieter American subs that were equipped with sonar could even sneak up on Japanese subs, and point them out to destroyers to destroy.) The only way they could really hide was to be out of range of any sonar-equipped unit or to hide in the noise or jumble of other ships or debris. (German subs were faster, quieter, submerged deeper, were produced in much larger numbers, and used better tactics than Japanese subs, so techniques learned fighting German subs were devastatingly effective against the Japanese subs.)
^ Meant subs in general. Read much about Japanese subs in the other discussions and their lack of stealthness But… yeah, diesel.
About the strategy, modern subs with bigger batteries could have hide in the seafloor's landscape can they ? And stay quiet down there while listening for anything that approaches them.
In movies, they always seems like the hunted rather than hunter though -_-
