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"Wolfpack" de WP en anglais.
Le terme de meute fait référence à une tactique d'attaque en groupe de U-boots de la Kriegsmarine pendant la Bataille de l'Atlantique durant la Seconde guerre mondiale. Ce terme a aussi été utilisé dans le cadre de la guerre sous-marine dans le Pacifique pour les américains.
Karl Dönitz used the term Rudel to describe his strategy of submarine warfare—Rudel translates best as "pack" of animals and has become known in English as "wolf pack" (Wolfsrudel), a more accurate metaphoric, but not literal, translation.
U-boat movements were controlled by the Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (BdU; English translation: "Commander of Submarines") much more closely than American submarines, which were given tremendous independence once on patrol. Accordingly, U-boats usually patrolled separately, often strung out in co-ordinated lines across likely convoy routes (usually merchants and small vulnerable destroyers), only being ordered to congregate after one located a convoy and alerted the BdU, so a Rudel consisted of as many U-boats as could reach the scene of the attack. With the exception of the orders given by the BdU, U-Boat commanders could attack as they saw fit. Often the U-Boat commanders were given a probable number of U-Boats that would show up, and then when they were in contact with the convoy, make call signs to see how many had arrived. If the number was sufficient, or if the threat of increased escorts was a possibility, they would attack. American wolf packs usually comprised three boats that patrolled in close company and organized before they left port under the command of the senior captain of the three. "Swede" Momsen devised the tactics and led the first American wolf pack to sea in October 1943.
Les attaques en meute de sous-marins constituèrent une menace sérieuse pour les convois des alliés, mais ceux-ci prirent des mesures pour contrer cette menace en retournant contre elle la tactique. En particulier, la gestion des meutes impliquait une coordination se traduisant par un gros volume de messages radio émis. Ces communications pouvaient être interceptées et la position du sous-marin déduite par des dispositifs de repèrage comme le "Huff-Duff", sobriquet sous lequel était connu le High Frequency Direction Finder, ou HF/DF, permettant alors de l'attaquer.
Also, effective air cover, both long-range planes with radar, and escort carriers and blimps, allowed U-boats to be spotted as they shadowed a convoy (waiting for the cover of night to attack). The destroyers of the Atlantic also used depth charges and other small mines which could be dropped off the ships' side.
Wolf packs fell out of use during the Cold War: modern submarines have far better weapons and underwater speed than those of World War II, so there is no need for them to operate in large groups. Instead, the United States Navy deploys its attack submarines on individual patrols, with the exception of one or (rarely) two attack submarines in each carrier group. American ballistic missile submarines have always operated alone. (Soviet ballistic missile submarines operate in well-protected bastions.) However, with the opening shots of the Iraq War in March, 2003, the term "wolf pack" was brought back into use to describe the fleet of American and British nuclear submarines which operated together in the Red Sea, firing tomahawk missiles at Iraqi targets. USS Providence was the first boat to fire its entire load of missiles and earn the nickname "Big Dog of the Red Sea Wolf Pack."
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- Karl Dönitz, Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days (New York: World Publishing Company, 1958)
- Peter Maas, The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History (HarperCollins New York, 1999)
- E. B. Potter and Chester W. Nimitz, eds; Sea Power: A Naval History (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960)
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Liste des meutes de U-boot de la bataille de l'Atlantique :
