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Originally Posted by Hitman
Exactly. And to be more specific, the british captains, like the US ones, favoured a track angle of 110 degrees (Better ask Rockin Robins why, I don't remember right now) and usually asked the TDC operator to provide an attack course for that track angle.  |
At 110 degrees (or thereabout, actually it is a function of target and torp speed), the rate of change of target AOB is slowest.
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