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Originally Posted by tater
Very interesting.
Gets me thinking... What about an active sonar with a HUGE range, but low sensitivity. I'm talking 20km type ranges.
Would that work? IJN escorts were known to drive around banging away with the sonar pinging. You could make a "bungo pete" clone of a few escorts, and the only change is a super range sonar... If the sensitivity is low enough it just might work.
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What I've been thinking about doing to recreate "always active" escorts is creating a radar which operates under water. It would have a sweep of 270-90 degrees. What I'd like to figure out is how to make it "Ping" audibly. Thinking about working on that after I get this one balanced out.
This project will take time--when 1 test can take 4 hours and (adding in luck's X factor) it's difficult to know how close I am to achieving what I'm looking for. But I believe we're on the same page regarding escorts that run active all the time.
Thought: What would an escort that
only had active sonar do? It would be easy to strip the passive off and see if it would then depend on active.
But for now--I'd better go work on that computer on the bench behind
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Cheers!