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Originally Posted by Pisces
I see plenty of points in your narrative that I could sink your method with but I'll wait until I've seen all the parts of the movie. But it would also be a repeat of my first message in this thread.
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Ditto. the method is already toast, proved that way many times in many ways by several people detailed above. The AoB of 10 has never been established, therefore the method fails. Only by infinitessimally unlikely coincidence would a random target be detected at AoB 10. If you were not at AoB 10, Then getting there from an over the horizon position would in almost all cases mean a long high speed forced surface jaunt that would blow the attack by making you obvious to the approaching target. However since you CANNOT establish AoB from the long distance, you have to idea where to make that fruitless high speed surface charge to. The best you can do is establish a collision course with the target, regardless of his AoB (which is irrelevant) and plug him by the method of your choice when he gets in eyeball range. 8010 has nothing to do with it.
What you really did was a standard visual approach with your scope hanging out of the water for 20 minutes, followed by a Dick O'Kane without using the TDC but with the speed calculated wrongly. The target was traveling slower by a knot or two from what you figured, as both hits were substantially forward of your aiming point. You were saved only by the fact that you used killer rules #1, #2 and #3: get close, no, get closer, NO! EVEN CLOSER!!!! That's the best advice ever published. 3000 yard shots have no place in a war where the object is to sink the enemy. Get close enough and a harvest of errors don't matter.
Another point making this attack method less than desirable: you are submerged, chasing your target before he ever comes over the horizon. You are running down your battery, taking your boat out of the fight and making it vulnerable to counterattack when you should be conserving your batteries on the surface. Only after visually acquiring your target should you maneuver ahead of your target and submerge in such a position that you can use minimal battery power to develop the attack. Granted, if you are extremely lucky you are only 10 degrees off his track, but at a distance of 20 miles, that is a long way to have to abuse your batteries to get close enough to shoot.