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Originally Posted by Stealhead
IIRC even if you cant "see" the ship(no colored arrow over it with auto-target) you can still fire towards its bearing.I for sure recall doing what you say but with out locking the target.
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Not only that, you can also input manually all the TDC data, according to your best guesses.
Do you think real skippers had a 'lock' option? the best they could to, I guess, was to have an officer constantly pointing the scope to the target, assuming he wasn't doing that himself. All the data TDC need in inputed either manually, or directly by the sub's systems. Bearing on the target is inputed directly by the scope. Rotate it 10 degrees to the left, and the TCD considers the target to be 10 degrees to the left.
Let's digress a little more. A corolary of this argument is this: if you are in good visual situation, and has already every TDC data plotted in, you can 'unlock' the target and aim for an specific part of the target with your scope.