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Originally Posted by Wolfcat
just wonder how realistic the 4-bearing method is in real life? I mean it's impossible to maintain stationary or on a straight course when undersea current can blow your sub off course. Do submariners in WWII actually use this method?
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That is why in my video I used a version of the 4 bearings method where the sub is on the move.
Is this method historic? Hard to say really.
As derstosstrupp said a submarines place was, if possible, on the surface, and surfaced attacks at night where the preferred method of attack during the first years of the war.
However, this changed radically mid war when staying on the surface became far to dangerous, due to aircraft and radar equipped escorts.
While this particular method was developed in the 50ties, other methods to determine a targets position, by observing the change in bearing to target over time, where already in use much earlier than that.