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Originally Posted by Orm
I am talking for the Akula now. Could you be more precise with this 7 knots rule? How did you come to this particular speed? Did you test it yourself?
You know that, with the Akula II, from 6 to 7 knots, your are jumping from 65 to 66 Db (see the Db charts).
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tested from beta 1, one year ago, yes.
I explained why above, I tought it was clear.
You better have 1Db more and staying able to make a good TMA.
Of course, if you use AC TMA, you can even stay at 2 knts, where the noise is at the lower value.
The AC TMA will do the impossible job you won't be able to do manually at this speed ....
AC TMA just prevent you to do a real tactical job, and authorize you to do every mistake that could kill the TMA if you process it manually.
But you made a mistake, at 6
AND 7 knts, Akula II is at 60Db, and Akula Impr is at 62 and 63Db, with MOD 2.01.
read again the chart.
Most people concentrate on making the less noise possible.
I think this is not a good obsession.
Of course, you better stay as stealth as possible, but without giving up your ability to work and tactical considerations.
I usually saw that on nuke matches, some people staying at very low speed.
But as you couldn't detect other subs farther than 5 or 6 miles, in the best conditions, I use active for this kind of matches.
1) plotting all contacts on passive and making a TMA on them
2) when I made all TMA on passive contact, even if I didn't found the ennemy, I launch 2 torps
3) after torps are in the water, my stealth is dead, so I use active to locate every contact
4) the new contact I will find will be the target, always. (but with MOD 2.01, this require really much work than before)
5) re directing torps to this contact, using active some times to relocate the target accuratly
6) when torps are 1 miles from the target, I open the seekers
As for torpedoes, active is the tool to hunt subs, nuke or diesels.
I'm pretty sure a real nuke commander will use it in a fight against another sub, just because it will give him a very accurate picture of the ennemy sub, at 4 times the range of passive.
Some people believe the most important thing is to detect the first the other. That is wrong.
The most important thing it to LOCATE the ennemy sub the first.
THIS IS a real advantage.
And Active do this, not passive, except if the target is following the same path for a long time, without detecting you.
In this case, the targeted skipper need to learn some tactical tips, like how to kill a TMA for the ennemy (changing speed and course regularly). Of course, these tacticals tips don't work against the magic AC TMA, always finding an accurate solution everytime, in every situations.
If you don't agree with this statment, why not proving me I'm wrong on the field ?
nothing better than a match to check assertions.
I like nuke matches.
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