It does tend to be more accurate the closer you are. When you are at 5k yards you aren't looking for perfect accuracy anyway. You just want to work out a rough course and speed for intercept.
When I'm close enough to shoot the sonar, active and passive is plenty good enough to explode three of three torpedoes. If the range is off by 20 to 50 yards, who cares?
Think I'll take the sub out to my anchored target shooting range and do some pinging to see what I come up with. Should be interesting.
I don't use range to shoot usually, because I'm a fixed bearing guy most of the time. But you do have to have a decent range figure to do target course and speed.
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