If this helps, here's how it occurred from my side:
Detected Akula at about 15 nm to my SSE, above layer which was approx 660feet.
I went below layer, maneuvered for a better position, came back up, Akula still there, at about 4knots.
I launched 2 uuv's, 1 below, 1 above, they were too far to hear him.
Since I knew this guy was supposed to be hard to kill, I fired a full salvo of 5(!!!!) torps. I never fire that many,but I had heard stories of this guy evading torps, and I was short on time.
I could hear him above the layer the whole time, I would loose the contact immediately when I went below.
Became concerned it may have been a neutral when the torps were getting very close but he wasn't maneuvering away.
I activated my torps when the nearest were about 1.5nm away.
He fired a single torp, I could track it on TA BB, it was on his LOB, so I knew it was him and not a neutral.
He launched a few missile torps, they landed quite a ways away, no threat. This verified he was above the layer still.
My torps were set for ceiling of 10 feet, bottom of 2100.
Set different depths for them, ranging from 700-200 feet.
4 active, 1 passive at 40kts.
I tracked them in nicely, couldn't figure it out when they got to where he should be and nothing locked on.
Kept em searching, thought my TMA might be off, especially since I could still track his 50hz singal.
TMA updated his contact at 2okts, heading due South. I had a torp exactly on that position, I turned 2 of them around, they also wouldn't aquire anything at that position.
Eventual I shut em down, since I figured he must be doing something wierd, or my TMA was waaaay off.
At this point it was getting late, he had no idea where I was, so I called a draw.
When I watched the replay I was a little bummed to say the least.
I had just tracked and ID'd the target perfectly, sent 5 MK48 ADCAPs at him, and they didn't aquire him.
Hope we can get this fixed, but as I stated, I won't dive with him again.
What's the point?
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