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Originally Posted by IronPerch
...About the sonar ... I have been a bit confused with the units used with the sonar in RFB, so could someone explain the range behaviour of active sonar measurements more closely? 
For a realism i play with Imperial units although i have accustomed to metric units. Anyway while playing with the imperial units there is a label in the active sonar indicator telling that the active sonar is measuring velocity in meters? Is this a bug, is it a conversion value for metric users or was the sonar build in europe? Also my sonar operator gives strange readings when requesting exact ranges, especially for long range contacts. I know there is realism involed to the sonar measurements but when i get reading e.g. "3280!" and the actual range is more likely 6000 yards i'm a bit confused. Should the range reported be at least over the maximum range in sonar's indicator?    Or is the unit of range reported changed when crossing certain point -> e.g. "3280! = 3.280 miles" in long range reports? |
Most likely this is still a bug with the game that has been around since it was released. Even though the active sonar can ping out to only 5000 yards, your sonarman will give you range values far beyond that if you just use the button on the taskbar and not the one at the 3D display. And yeah, he's probably reporting the range in meters, just like the weather report still gives the wind speed in meters/second. Stinks, but there's not much we can do about it.