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Originally Posted by Chaos81
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Originally Posted by kage
The towed array gives mirror contacts.
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Can you or someone else, elabarate on that? I'm still VERY new at this game as well and am trying to pick up all I can.
I think I remember reading this at one point, but can't remember where or when. Why do you get a mirror contact, and how do you tell the two apart? |
You get a mirror contact because the towed array can tell you the angle between the array and incoming sounds, but not the direction. If, for example, the angle in 50°, that could be 50° to the left or 50° to the right. Finding the right one is easy: turn, and wait for the array to stabilise on the new course. When it does so, the fake contact will move by two times that angle, the real contact will not move (well, only as much as it would due to its own speed.)