Oberon Torpedoes

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I know torpedoes are 'steerable' for a bit after launch, but the Oberon had torpedoes that were wire-guided for I believe 200-ish metres after launch, at the very least in Australian service. Is this an oversight, or a balance decision?

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We never implemented wire guidance

With current visibility, it would be unbalanced unless your view degraded in the presence of decoys

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Fair enough

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E.g. if decoys looked like copies of the original sub

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I mean, that could work

And would be realistic

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Yes. Lots of screen clutter with that approach, though

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Agreed

Unless decoys turned the sub into a decoy

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Another approach is to turn the ship with decoys into a missing contact arrow only, and the decoys too

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Although I imagine that approach to be a bit clunky

And then BVR a sub could use torpedos as decoys