to find a sub using passive equipment:
1. make a sonar bouy net (just a line of bouies) or just start poking around with the hydrophone.
2. once first bearing is made go out a few miles perpendicular to the line of bearing and drop another passive bouy. If you had a bouy make the first line drop the contact and reaquire it to make an updated line, do this when the second bouy comes online (about 2 minutes wait).
3. once you have an X to find the third side of the triangle do this, it's kinda hard to put into words. go parallel with the original line of bearing till you go a little past the X then drop the third bouy.
4. once online, clear all the contact and reaquire them to make the most up-to-date triangle. At the middle of that triangle is the enemy sub.
5. make a contact marker and designate it a sub and hostile, then fly over to about 3 miles (maybe less because there's no way for them to detect a passive system listening to them.) and set up the torpedo.
6. drop it and watch the guy die. if it doesn't happen clear all the bouies and try again.
How to sink a sub in 5 minutes or less:
1. go to last known location (if you're doing a datum quick mission)
or
1. do the net again but use dicass bouies.
2. when you have a passive line of bearing ping the guy. This only need be done once.
3. set the torpedo, fly to him and kill him. 1 multi-million dollar (or billion dollar if it's US) sub dead for the price of 1 torpedo.
as for the strange things going on with the hydrophone, I've never seen it happen. but then again I use active system alot (unless I'm in a P 3 then I use the mad).
Also, the subs here really are subs. Don't think of them as anything like any other game. Driving these things are like driving the real ones. That's why I stick to helicopters.
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