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ReubenJames · 08-29-05, 02:09 AM

As I said before, after more than 2 years absent from the community, I need to revise many I have read before.

I still do not understand the meaning of the TMA instrument. The concept is to compute the range, speed and course of a track that is straight forward. Here is what I do not understand: the track is moving, how does the TMA work to lock-on to a track.

Using the 2D map, I can easily classify an unknown object as "hostile" thus allowing myself to assign it as a target to my weapons. So why do I have to go through the procedure to "classify" the target using "Hull/Conformal" sonar?

08-29-05, 02:09 AM	#1
ReubenJames Gunner Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: wishing to live in St Ives, England. Posts: 92 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Stupid questions about ... what I have read and studied. As I said before, after more than 2 years absent from the community, I need to revise many I have read before. I still do not understand the meaning of the TMA instrument. The concept is to compute the range, speed and course of a track that is straight forward. Here is what I do not understand: the track is moving, how does the TMA work to lock-on to a track. Using the 2D map, I can easily classify an unknown object as "hostile" thus allowing myself to assign it as a target to my weapons. So why do I have to go through the procedure to "classify" the target using "Hull/Conformal" sonar?