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NFunky · 10-01-09, 07:45 PM

Molon,
Okay, I understand what you meant now, that's a real shame. To put it roughly, either the sensor works too well or not well enough.

Oh well, I did succede in using active in the Kilo today. I'd been searching at 5 kts for some time and when I made a turn an Agosta popped up really loud on my sonars, bearing rate changing fast. I figured he had to have picked me up already seeing as he was so close and I was not traveling at a very stealthy speed, so I pinged him and got a feint blip on his bearing at around 1700m. I fired two USET-80s, one directly on his bearing, one ten degrees left of it (the direction his bearing was changing in), with RTE of 1000. Now that I think about it I probably should have spread the torps even more with him being that close, but I got the kill anyway. Only downside was the damn RA AI never counterfired even though I'm sure he had me on sonar.

10-01-09, 07:45 PM	#10
NFunky Machinist's Mate Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 127 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Molon, Okay, I understand what you meant now, that's a real shame. To put it roughly, either the sensor works too well or not well enough. Oh well, I did succede in using active in the Kilo today. I'd been searching at 5 kts for some time and when I made a turn an Agosta popped up really loud on my sonars, bearing rate changing fast. I figured he had to have picked me up already seeing as he was so close and I was not traveling at a very stealthy speed, so I pinged him and got a feint blip on his bearing at around 1700m. I fired two USET-80s, one directly on his bearing, one ten degrees left of it (the direction his bearing was changing in), with RTE of 1000. Now that I think about it I probably should have spread the torps even more with him being that close, but I got the kill anyway. Only downside was the damn RA AI never counterfired even though I'm sure he had me on sonar.