Brilliant stuff, thank's suBB. In fact it's a lot to digest before I start asking too many more questions, but...
How do you use DEMON strength to determine closing/opening course if he is also accelerating? Don't the lines tend to get thinker no matter what if his speed is increasing? Likewise using other arrays, he tends to appear on all my arrays as soon as he starts to really put the hammer down. I'm pretty good at determining opening/closing while building my firing solution, but once he starts evading I can't tell anymore.
I am so fixated on the opening/closing thing because, like I said, I've had enemy (AI) subs run at a very acute angle toward my torpedoes. If I don't detect this and enable the fish sooner than my RTE, he sometimes can get close enough to slip past once they start snaking. It's only happened once to me, but I mean to see it doesn't happen again. (That evasive tactic is called 'crazy Ivan' right?)
I just started playing around with a scenario using the Kilo Improved for primative ASW against old diesel boats like the Daphne. In some ways it's actually easier. For instance, I don't have to wait for the TA to stabilize after a turn. The really hard part is that I can't get DEMON data until the target is WAY too close, close enought that I should have had an accurate solution by that point, so I pretty much have to do TMA without speed data. I've also been trying to use the USET-80 instead of the TEST-71 because of it's speed and range advantages, but using non-wired torpedoes is much more difficult. I end up using all six tubes loaded with USETs to destroy a single target. I do a lot of intercept calculation and use that range to spread inversion you were talking about and still only one torp, sometimes two, will actually lock on to the target.
Anyway, just throwing more thoughts and questions out there. Thanks again both of you for your quick and informative responses.
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