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ID: od6L5EBU/qst/6253377#6253378
6/5/2025, 9:58:34 PM
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>(2) Keep your Hawkeyes running - their radar detections might be the only warning of a manifestation right on your heels.
>(A) Run below cavitation speed (~16kts) - the quiet is your best friend.
“The Hawkeyes stay hot,” you decide. “The early warning is too valuable. But we will slow it down, 16 knots.” Though it galls you to say so - were it only you and Long Beach and Bainbridge you would have no trouble sustaining 30-plus knots all the way home, but that’s not an option now, at least not without dividing your already tiny fleet, and seeing as how you’re significantly quieter now than full-sized steel ships as it is, it will likely be safer to give your sonar arrays as much leeway as possible. “Anyhow, how did things go on your end? Were you able to jury-rig together anything for Nagato?”
Long Beach nods. “We gave her a couple chaff tubes and towed decoys, and some proper radios. I also hooked her up with a basic surface search radar to measure muzzle velocity and firing arcs like they did for the Iowas, but I’m not sure how it’ll work with her built-in rangefinder since correction inputs are still manual, and obviously we couldn’t run a proper test under EMCON.”
“Do you two have enough spares between you to outfit Prinz Eugen the same way?”
“Plenty. Decoys and chaff come cheap.”
“Good,” you say. Ideally you could do something about her lack of point-defence, maybe a battery or two of Rolling Airframe Missiles, but hooking those up underway doesn’t sound like a good idea. “Anything helps. Keep it up. Everyone, return to stations; I’m going back to get more information. I’ll brief you all in depth once Prinz joins us.” You give your companions a salute, and they return it before turning and vanishing into the starry Pacific night.
As you take a last look at your tac view, it occurs to you that the ASW squadrons hunting near Kwajalein are already over 200 miles away and counting. They’ve already served their core mission there, pinning the Abyssal sub down while Prinz Eugen builds some distance between her and it; whether they ought to stay on station any further is an open question, as you’ll certainly need those assets to safeguard your own fleet.
>(1) Keep them hunting as long as you can. You don’t want to leave that Abyssal sub out there if at all possible.
>(2) Recall and retask them to patrol the path ahead.
>(2) Keep your Hawkeyes running - their radar detections might be the only warning of a manifestation right on your heels.
>(A) Run below cavitation speed (~16kts) - the quiet is your best friend.
“The Hawkeyes stay hot,” you decide. “The early warning is too valuable. But we will slow it down, 16 knots.” Though it galls you to say so - were it only you and Long Beach and Bainbridge you would have no trouble sustaining 30-plus knots all the way home, but that’s not an option now, at least not without dividing your already tiny fleet, and seeing as how you’re significantly quieter now than full-sized steel ships as it is, it will likely be safer to give your sonar arrays as much leeway as possible. “Anyhow, how did things go on your end? Were you able to jury-rig together anything for Nagato?”
Long Beach nods. “We gave her a couple chaff tubes and towed decoys, and some proper radios. I also hooked her up with a basic surface search radar to measure muzzle velocity and firing arcs like they did for the Iowas, but I’m not sure how it’ll work with her built-in rangefinder since correction inputs are still manual, and obviously we couldn’t run a proper test under EMCON.”
“Do you two have enough spares between you to outfit Prinz Eugen the same way?”
“Plenty. Decoys and chaff come cheap.”
“Good,” you say. Ideally you could do something about her lack of point-defence, maybe a battery or two of Rolling Airframe Missiles, but hooking those up underway doesn’t sound like a good idea. “Anything helps. Keep it up. Everyone, return to stations; I’m going back to get more information. I’ll brief you all in depth once Prinz joins us.” You give your companions a salute, and they return it before turning and vanishing into the starry Pacific night.
As you take a last look at your tac view, it occurs to you that the ASW squadrons hunting near Kwajalein are already over 200 miles away and counting. They’ve already served their core mission there, pinning the Abyssal sub down while Prinz Eugen builds some distance between her and it; whether they ought to stay on station any further is an open question, as you’ll certainly need those assets to safeguard your own fleet.
>(1) Keep them hunting as long as you can. You don’t want to leave that Abyssal sub out there if at all possible.
>(2) Recall and retask them to patrol the path ahead.
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