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Originally Posted by Bellman
Speaking as a layman and with respect to those who I suspect know far more in real life about this topic,
it simply amazes me the extent to which we all endlessly speculate about what real-life elements of sonar
performance are included in the sim. Unless and until SAS expand on their somewhat brief manual exposition
we are indulging in a rather pointless exercise.  |
Yeah... that's why I get really annoyed when people say things like, "the sonar ranges are too short [long]" and you never see anyone say what the SSP looked like, what season it was, what the seastate was, how deep the water was, etc.. The truth of the matter is that any estimate of sonar performance has to be qualified with an extensive description of the environmental conditions in which that performance was achieved.
Unfortunately, too often the only environmental qualification I see is that the detection took place in Tom Clancy land.
And if you really want to get into it, any good sonar model has to go hand-in-hand with a good global climatology.
In truth, outside of classified discussions, nobody really knows how good a given system will perform against a given target and that's how it should be.