Target Length is only for the SBC, so it can work out where MOT is. No calculating spreads with the TDC.

But, in U-571...

All they needed to do was press the fire button and you could hit a target that required a 3 dimensional firing solution... totally blind with little more then a sonar bearing. :har:

It's been a while since i played SH3 and even longer since i used the salvo dial, but i thought it did include about a 3 sec gap between shots. Oh well.

@Nisgeis - what's SBC?

The sound bearing converter - the fourth part of the TDC. It turns the bearing heard at the sonar into an actual bearing of where the target is. Due to the speed of sound in water, the target is not always heard at the bearing it is at, as it has moved away some distance by the time the sound has reached the hydrophone.

American TDC's also had a "Distance to Track" indicator.

*Ahem*




JCC

Some Mark 3s did, it was added in to later mods of the Mark 3, but deleted in the Mark 4s. I See no subtext in your post :DL.

I am almost certain that in SH4, sound travels with the speed of light! :DL

No? :hmmm:


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It's faster than that - it's instantaneous. There's no need for the SBC in SH4, it was just to say that's what target length was for, not for calculating spreads.