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NFunky · 06-16-10, 11:50 PM

Well, lets see...

The UUV being very quiet makes sense. It's a modern submersible running on a battery powered screw at 4 kts so it had better be quiet. The fact that it picked up a contact you hadn't is odd though. Were you scanning your towed array with the narrowband display? Very quiet/distant contacts usually only show up on narrowband and only as a thin black line in the lowest frequency range, so maybe you just missed it (happens to me in pretty much every scenario I play US boats). I also find it odd that your UUV was traveling at 4 kts. There must have been a current cause the UUV is supposed to run at 5 kts for 30 minutes, giving it a range of 2.5 nm. In this way, it is a somewhat limited piece of hardware, but useful nonetheless. I would never use it to try to find a contact (unless it involved maneuvering the UUV around an island/underwater mountain), but they are invaluable when prosecuting a target or evading enemy fire.

I'd always recommend a clean reinstall if you suspect something's wrong. RA_OPFOR_DWX1_1 is a multipart archive, so if you have all four files in the DW root directory, you should just be able to unzip the first one and it'll automatically do the rest. Then you just run the .bat file (which takes about a year) and you're good to go. It may not be JGSME friendly, but it's a very user-friendly mod to install.

06-16-10, 11:50 PM	#6
NFunky Machinist's Mate Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 127 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Well, lets see... The UUV being very quiet makes sense. It's a modern submersible running on a battery powered screw at 4 kts so it had better be quiet. The fact that it picked up a contact you hadn't is odd though. Were you scanning your towed array with the narrowband display? Very quiet/distant contacts usually only show up on narrowband and only as a thin black line in the lowest frequency range, so maybe you just missed it (happens to me in pretty much every scenario I play US boats). I also find it odd that your UUV was traveling at 4 kts. There must have been a current cause the UUV is supposed to run at 5 kts for 30 minutes, giving it a range of 2.5 nm. In this way, it is a somewhat limited piece of hardware, but useful nonetheless. I would never use it to try to find a contact (unless it involved maneuvering the UUV around an island/underwater mountain), but they are invaluable when prosecuting a target or evading enemy fire. I'd always recommend a clean reinstall if you suspect something's wrong. RA_OPFOR_DWX1_1 is a multipart archive, so if you have all four files in the DW root directory, you should just be able to unzip the first one and it'll automatically do the rest. Then you just run the .bat file (which takes about a year) and you're good to go. It may not be JGSME friendly, but it's a very user-friendly mod to install. Last edited by NFunky; 06-17-10 at 12:21 AM.