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concerning range accuracy: I think these values are fine
Range < 1000m : Messages in 100m steps
Range = 1000m - 3000m : Messages in 200m steps
Range = 3000m - 6000m : Messages in 500m steps
Range = 6000m - 10000m : Messages in 1000m steps
Range > 10000m : Messages in 2000m steps.
Maybe it would be good to reduce the 200m accuracy to a distance of 2000m instead of 3000m 
I think 2000m accuracy for ranges over 10000m is fine, however, I would not increase it further (I guess from a gameplay point of view it does not really matter whether it is 1000m or 2000m accuracy). Maybe Hitman has some ideas about the estimation abilities of the officers back then 
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Range estimation by naked eye was much practiced in Uboat training, according to an interview with Georg Hess, they even went 8 times a day to sea in the academy with that sole purpose. The Uboat Commander's Handbooks also says that it's a skill that had to be practiced constantly.
Anyway, I would say that for ranges less than 1000 metres a 50 metres accurancy is better (May be even 20 metres), and that the point at which accurancy goes wild is when targets are beyond the horizon. From an Uboat's bridge the horizon is at 9 km, and the crew knew it, and used the horizon line to estimate range (Any target at the horizon is 9km, and before it <9 km) but when the hull starts getting hidden, estimations are only very rough guesses. So I would say that from 10-11km onwards accurancy should fell sharply.
