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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
If you have multiple targets all this sonar only targeting goes right out the window with the inability to resolve one target from another, yet another indispensible advantage of modern computers with their database of just about every ship on the ocean, which can pick an individual target out of a crowd and follow it to the exclusion of all the other targets.
Or it can identify essentially all the members of the convoy by name and target all of them simultaneously.
So what do you do when you detect a convoy on sonar? Run away? That would seem the prudent course for a U-Boat late in the war if survival is your aim.
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I haven't chased many convoys or multiple units this way. (I seem to run into single units more, or intercept most convoys based upon radio reports with reliable data) I don't rely on the lines of sound on the map, but listen myself to the noises as I move the needle and take the bearings from that notepad. (the 3d hydrophone panel is tilted to the view making it difficult) It would require tracking the convoy as a whole. And this is definately not easy or accurate. But the best I have at the moment. Sometimes you just have to make due.