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Originally Posted by jimmbbo
I likely used a technically incorrect shorthand means of saying "take a quick shot on minimum data because the bad guys are on my a$$"
If my setup looks decent and I get jumped by a DD, I have had some success by taking the shot even with only a "gut feel" that it's right. I can count on one hand the number of times I've used it and reckon it was successful about 3/5 times.
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I recently encountered a convoy of large, fast passenger liners in dense fog; my radar could see them approaching, but visibility was near zero, so I dialed my engines so I was almost drifting at 2 knots, while still surfaced, near their projected course. Next thing I knew, a large old passenger liner came barrelling out of the fog, doing 15 knots @ 600 yards.
I quickly shot off two torpedoes, almost purely on a guess, and was shocked when they exploded midships, blew it in half and dropped it within a minute.
