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Originally Posted by Munchausen
 The concept should work ... but it's the observer or the sonar head or the radar ... not the submarine ... that's the center point. In fact, I tried for a long time to use sonar, thinking that the tangent would be when the sonar operator said, "constant distance" ... except he kept saying it ... on average, for about forty degrees of bearing. |
All measurements from your sub are standardized to be from a single point on the submarine, the center. So although sonar measurements are taken dozens of feet ahead of periscope measurements, the outputs are all normalized so that when the crew looks at a sonar bearing they can point the scope at that bearing and see the object. So radar, sonar, both periscopes all return the same bearings. This is true both in the game and on a real sub.