I caught the briefest whiff of my opponent's (Seawolf) UUV coming from a narrow channel, which almost immediately disappeared, apparently behind the terrain again. The channel was all the way on the other side of the map, but it was a narrow, shallow crossing and was perfect for an ambush. I just had to get there first. A UUV deep would be worthless and a UUV shallow would reveal my approximate position, so I had to run blind. I took a deep, circuitous route, making sure that the sea floor and the islands masked my approach to the channel. I arrived on station without being detected. I moved up to the exit of the channel, slowed to 6 knots, and slowly patrolled across it.
Got contact on the conformal array first, then the towed array as that sensor became unmasked from behind the island. I triangulated the contact, put him at 4nm--the water was less than 100m there! I fired 3 shkvals on a 2-lead 1-lag spread set to 50m. The two lead weapons hit and sunk him. There was no return fire.
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