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Originally Posted by Daniel Prates
I always thought that the time distance between pings was only an indicator of how far the DD is to you. Closer to you, closer the pings, according to simple-to-understand phisics. I think pinging was set a standar continuous mode, thus being no crewmen 'hitting the ping button' faster as he gets closer.
Modern active sonar will have a 'single ping' and a 'continuous ping', I don't think the pings will be done quicker or slower at the operator's discretion.
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Pings get quicker, because of the return value, the distance is shorter, the shorter it is, the quicker the ping returns to the ship. A louder ping would mean more of a bigger hit on your ship, more return.