Basics of Hydrophone Tracking?

Alcibiades · 04-06-10, 01:08 PM

Can anyone please help with the basics of how to track a ship with just the hydrophone?

With full realism, I can only get bearing to the ship. How can I estimate the ships speed, range, and heading?

Example: I am heading 000 (north) at 5 knots. contact bearing 90. unknown range. 5 minutes later, contact is bearing 94. unknown range.

So how to estimate how far away the ship is, what it's speed is, and it's approximate heading?

Right now I just guess and try to plot an intercept until I get into visual range.

any help would be appreciated.

04-06-10, 01:08 PM	#1
Alcibiades Watch Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 27 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Basics of Hydrophone Tracking? Can anyone please help with the basics of how to track a ship with just the hydrophone? With full realism, I can only get bearing to the ship. How can I estimate the ships speed, range, and heading? Example: I am heading 000 (north) at 5 knots. contact bearing 90. unknown range. 5 minutes later, contact is bearing 94. unknown range. So how to estimate how far away the ship is, what it's speed is, and it's approximate heading? Right now I just guess and try to plot an intercept until I get into visual range. any help would be appreciated.