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Originally Posted by ollie1983
They spy on exercises principally to see how platforms, sensors and weapons perform. Been done for decades.
A lot of technology is also for sale, it isn't too hard to work out its capabilities just by looking at blueprints.
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Yes, but I think these days it's the software that's the important part. A different behaviour can ruin your entire evasion plan.
Spying on exercises wouldn't help much unless the enemy is firing actual live torpedoes at each other.
You can try to figure out their torpedo behaviour by watching their evasion manoeuvres but the might as well adjust them to what they think your torps would do.
Even export weapons aren't perfect because I don't think their guidance system is on par with the base models.
IMHO the only way to prepare an evasion tactic is to either see an enemy torpedo in action (against a target that's actually doing it's best to evade it) or get a hold of one.
Otherwise the best you can do is to account for the most probable situations and modify your movements on the fly.