Targets are always present, but the range has to be estimated and that's not good math yet. New wire guided torpedo's solve that problem by swimming out of the tube and being fed tactical target information from sonar and the conn till the wire holding is cut and the fish goes after the target with passive or active sonar.
That's for like fat juicy oil tanker targets ... warships are different due to you can hear them 50 miles, or even greater, when they are pinging and they always run around pinging looking for return signal, but that far out is not yet within their range.
Got me so far ... the captain of SSBN's and SSGN's has orders to stay as far away as they can from anything that do them harm.
SSN's are different that captain would just put a fish down your throat than run away.
Someone should make a real modern subsim with all of the new countries getting diesel boats and include the SSBN's and the SSGN's, uh?
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pla•teau noun
a relatively stable level, period,
or condition a level of attainment
or achievement
Lord help me get to the next plateau ..
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