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Originally Posted by NFunky
Hmm, I would think that even in RA the Seawolf would be able to get a TIW at longer than 3 nm as long as the fish wasn't in the towed array baffles. Since it sounds like it was in the active intercept baffles, I'm sure the TA would have picked it up. Torpedoes are loud. Even with the quitest engine, a torpedo moves through the water at 40+ knots and makes a racket.
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The TA sonar can of course still pick up a torpedo acustic signature way beyond 3nm. Its just that you won't get the TIW message untill the torpedo is near you. That means that you have to pay a lot of attention at whats going on on sonar and can't rely exclusively on the TIW message anymore.