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The Attack on INS Hanit 3 Any of the Scenarios in Dors, the Booklet Reading Issue #31 October 2006 Table of Contents Product Updates Features The ship forms booklet for Dawn of the of requests for back issues. Looking back Three WW II US Subs Found 2 Rising Sun is on the street. For $28 you not over them, about 1/3 of each issue, relating German WW II Carrier Found 2 only get all the Form 10s you need to play to tactics or technology, is still worth The Attack on INS Hanit 3 any of the scenarios in DoRS, the booklet reading. New Chinese Warships 5 includes a CD-ROM with all the forms So we’ve collected all the good stuff FG&DN Scenario: Encounter 7 stored as PDFs. from each issue, made a few very small edits CaS Scenario: Midway Variant 8 H4 Scenario: Falklands Carrier Duel 20 Now that Bill’s done with the DoRS to follow up points in some of the articles, Modern-Day Camouflage 21 forms booklet, he’s going to restart Dave and bound it into a 54-page booklet: New Naval Aviation Resource 21 Arnesen’s Biplanes & Battleships project. The Best of GDW’s Harpoon SITREP. It’s New Trilogy Forum 21 Before Viking Forge and Clash of Arms available now for $20, with the price going Italian Guided 76mm Round 23 published the Naval SITREP, now-defunct up to $25 after December 31st. Big Ship Sinkings 31 Game Designers’ Workshop published the As far as new products, all our Harpoon SITREP. It was sixteen pages long development effort is focused on the Trilogy Rules Changes & Clarifications and supported the first game in what would harmonization, ensuring consistency across CaS Consolidated Bombing Table 10 become the Admiralty Trilogy. Published all three game systems and the entire 20th Air Combat in the Admiralty Trilogy 12 Q&A: Withdrawing from Battle 21 quarterly, we printed 20 issues (1990 - 95) Century. The results of this show up in the Smoothing the Curve: A New Damage before GDW folded and I had to find a new air combat and bombing tables and the new Point Formula 22 home for the game as well as the newsletter. damage point formula in this issue. Check Q&A: Low Vis Effects on EO Seekers 23 Like the Naval SITREP, it provided a out the new dogfight rules. Not only are Resolving Large Air Battles 24 mix of technology and game system-related we making the rules consistent, we’re also CaS AA Combat Resolution Table 27 articles, as well as scenarios. Surprisingly, making them simpler. Annex H3 Aircraft Guns 28 Charlie Spiegel has received a steady stream BT Sighting Through Clouds 30 Departments Product Updates 1 Cover: Photo NH 97484, F4F Wildcat fighters in formation in mid-1943, colorized by irotooko_jt. US Navy Editor’s Note: I deeply apologize for the lateness of this issue. Getting the air combat rules and all the associated material right has taken all summer and fall, much longer than we had planned. We believe this will be a big change for the better, but it was a much larger task than we had anticippated. Larry Bond A note on spelling: A recent issue of Warship International (V41#3) includes an article by a Japanese naval historian. He states that a more correct spelling of the class names “Kagero” and “Yugumo” is “Kagerou” Chief Fire Controlman Andy Doty has been a Trilogy designer roughly forever. Here’s Andy and “Yuugumo.” We use these at the Hillsboro Air Show. Yes, that is a M249 SAW. Andy is: spellings in the Midway scenario on 1) Demonstrating a new way of resolving rules disputes. page 8, and will use these spellings in 2) Tired of waiting in line. future publications. Andy will be retiring at the end of this year after 24 years of service. Congratulations, and thank you! The Naval SITREP is edited by Larry address, and phone number.The Admiralty Chris Carlson, and Ed Kettler. Fear God & Bond andSample is published biannually by the Trilogy is a registered trademark of Larry Dread Noughtfile is a registered trademark of Admiralty Trilogy Group (AdmiraltyTrilogy. Bond, Chris Carlson, Ed Kettler, and Mike Larry Bond, Chris Carlson, Ed Kettler, and com). Price per digital issue is $3.00 US. Harris. Harpoon is a registered trademark of Mike Harris. Article contributions should be sent to Larry Bond and Chris Carlson. Command at [email protected]. Include name, postal Sea is a registered trademark of Larry Bond, ©2015 The Admiralty Trilogy Group Naval SITREP Page 1 Issue #31 October 2006 Three WW II US Subs Found German WW II Three US submarines sunk during Carrier Found WW II have been located this year. While none of the discoveries reveal any secrets A Polish oil exploration company, or solve any mysteries, they are important Petrobaltic, has discovered the hulk of KM discoveries both for the families of those left Graf Zeppelin in the Baltic. Discovered in behind and for the men still on patrol. early July, the wreck was examined by the USS Lagarto (SS-371) was first, Polish Navy for two days. They reported discovered by commercial fishermen in that its dimensions and unique external May 2005. She was lost sometime after 3 features exactly matched the German WW May 1945, in an action with the Japanese II carrier. The announcement was made on minesweeper Hatsuka. She was found in 27 July. the Gulf of Thailand off the east coast of Although launched in 1938, Graf the Malay peninsula. Her identity was Zeppelin was never completed. She was confirmed by US Navy divers in May of scuttled in shallow water at Stettin in 1945 2006. as the Red Army approached. A much more famous submarine, USS The Soviets raised her and used the Wahoo (SS-238) was found on 17 August hulk to carry war booty back to Russia. 2006 in the La Perouse straits. One of the Once there, they may have attempted to most successful submarines of the war, repair her (at a minimum, they surveyed captained by Commander Dudley “Mush” her to see if it was feasible), but gave up the Morton, she was lost in action with enemy Wahoo in 1942. attempt. antisubmarine forces on 11 October 1943. US Navy In 1947, she was sunk as part of an A Russian search team was looking anticarrier warfare exercise. The Soviets for one of their own subs, L-19, when so that locating sunken warships, while still never revealed her location. they found Wahoo. Her identity has been difficult, is no longer extraordinary. She lies 55 kilometers off the Polish confirmed based on US records, but nobody All three subs were lost to enemy depth coast in eighty-plus meters of water. There has investigated the wreck. charging. While there is a tendency to are no plans to raise the vessel, and by At almost the same time, the wreck of disparage Japanese WW II ASW, it was still international law, ownership of the sunken USS Grunion (SS-216) was discovered on a threat, and even a boat as good as Wahoo warship passes to Germany. 16 April 2006, by an ocean survey company could be lost to it. The website www.spiegel.de/ hired by family members of Grunion’s None of the subs will be raised. All international/1,1518,428857,00.html skipper. She was on her first patrol near the have been declared war graves, and their has the best images of the carrier under Aleutians when she was lost to enemy action exact location is being kept secret by the US construction and after her discovery. BT on 30 July 1942. Navy. It is illegal to even dive on the wreck, The three subs were discovered by much less go inside or take anything from different means: commercial fishing, it. accidental discovery, and deliberate search. Fifty-two US subs were lost during the As Bob Ballard has shown, sonar and war. Lagarto had 86 men aboard her, Wahoo underwater robot technology has progressed 79, and Grunion 70. For their families, “lost” doesn’t have the same meaning now. Images of the subs and their discovery are available at www.navsource.org/archives. Details about US subs that were sunk can be found at www.oneternalpatrol.com and www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq39-1.htm Thanks to Bruce Abele and Michael Mohl for their assistance on this article. SampleBT file Sonar image of Grunion taken 17 August 2006 lying on her starboard side at about a Graf Zeppelin at her launch 45° angle. on 8 December 1938 US Navy Bundesarchiv Naval SITREP Page 2 Issue #31 October 2006 The Attack on INS Hanit - Is Stealth the Best Defense? by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson Given that intelligence dropped the While there are IR guided and On July 14th, in the opening days of ball (gee, when has that ever happened?) the millimeter wave radar variants of the C701 the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, INS Hanit only big question is why didn’t the missile reportedly in the works, China has not (Hebrew for “spear”), a Sa’ar V class missile hit destroy Hanit? displayed either of these at any arms shows. corvette, was struck by an antiship missile The shooters must have thought they An Iranian website, however, recently fired from the Lebanese coast. The unit had a sure thing. They’re probably still claimed that Iran had the IR-guided variant firing was not Hezbollah, but Pasdaran - scratching their heads and kicking each in their inventory and fired some during Iranian Revolutionary Guards. other. a recent exercise.
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