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Originally Posted by mikesn9
Thanks, Prop.
what about the sonar reports with no ships there?
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One thing to keep in mind with Sonar Contact reports is the "accuracy" is not there for several reasons. If you use TC and get a report, it takes the game a bit to come out of TC, and depending upon the amount of TC and the contact, you might only drop to 8x TC. Also, even at a normal 1x TC, your sonarman will "lose" and then "regain" sonar contacts. Each of those will be a 'new' Sonar Contact if visual has not been established yet. Hence, it could have been that.
However, a very frustrating side-effect with Sonar Contacts can especially be seen in what I was working on for Photo Recon missions, where the PhotoTarget we were using does "x-mit" Sonar, which could be helpful to the sub skipper in finding the Target, except when you have 30 or more PhotoTargets in use along the beaches of an atoll, or in a situation such as you encountered - which contact is what?? Is it a ship, or a PhotoTarget... So, coming into Engebi, you may well have had the ship Sonar Contact (eventually visible), and a PhotoTarget or two Sonar Contact. You will not "see" the PhotoTarget though until you get in really close, and even then, that is just an "ID visible". You don't ever truly "see" the actual target... and at that, sometimes involves getting into water less than 70 foot deep - which is prime territory for an airplane to spot your boat at PD - "Back Emergency!"... no solution has been found yet, so treat the foto stuff as low-priority.
