[Shkval]

Originally Posted by TorpX

This is what I call a "45 degrees approach"... funny I thought I invented it ... I was guided by a fact that a cannon ball has it's largest range when fired at the angle of 45 degrees... I use it when I have a small number of degrees... 30 or less of "time" to intercept on the T course (90 degrees approach), basically "constant distance" or "going away" contacts with small advantage in degrees... 10 or less. Of course if the advantage is too big... 20, 30, or more degrees I use parallel course to gain on him... these decisions are made after the 4 bearing method (hydrophone) or the radar plotting... It's good also against fast moving warships... at night... too risky during daylight...
I remember once I stumbled upon two cruisers... I think they were Maya class... moving at 22 knots at my 40 or so degrees on T course but out of range of torpedoes... with this approach I managed to cut the distance to about 7 Km, dive, sneak in a few more hundreds of meters and fire heavy salvo of slow Mk14... sunk one, other got away...