Sonobuoy Sea Power Naval Combat in the Missile Age

Sonobuoy Sea Power

See Sonobuoy Naval Warfare PMC Tactical.

SSQ-53 DIFAR is a sonobuoy for United States Navy, here is unit reference shown in below example image.

Sea Power SSQ-53 Sonobuoy Unit Reference

Image credit: The Mighty Jingles youtube channel, Sea Power - Sub Hunt video.

Select a helicopter with ASW loadout, sonobuoys, then use CTRL-RMB click with sonobuoys to create a search pattern waypoints. See below example image.

Sea Power Sonobuoy Helicopter Waypoints Pattern

Image credit: Wolfpack345 youtube channel, SEA POWER The Barney Incident || New Naval Simulation video.

In several Sea Power youtube videos I've seen players drop sonobuoys just to detect and track SURFACE ships as well if they don't want to use surface search radars, to me personally I never witnessed this in any other naval warfare sim previously, Harpoon, Janes Fleet Command, Dangerous Water, Cold Waters or CMANO, but hey maybe its just me. PMCTODO

Another example image for sonobuoy search pattern, this time created with "SHIFT-CLICK", I don't know what click means, is it LMB or RMB, will have to get the game on release day to find out for myself. I'm assuming that CTRL-RMB clicking will automatically generate systematic search pattern as seen in the above image, but SHIFT-LEFT-OR-RIGHT-MOUSE clicking enables you to manually place waypoints for sonobuoy drops. In "SEA POWER Kirov Supremacy" video Wolfpack345 confirmed that there is automatic search pattern which I assume he refers to CTRL-RMB click. PMCTODO

Sea Power Sonobuoy Helicopter Pattern Manual Waypoints

Image credit: Wolfpack345 youtube channel, SEA POWER Kirov Supremacy! || New Naval Simulation video.

Guess that is sonobuoy helicopter search pattern manual waypoints method then. Looks good, love making my own search patterns to hunt those submarines down.