Convoy Interception Methods

Frederf · 09-01-09, 10:21 PM

You know I had it with 2 sines the first time when I actually worked it out but Subsim.com went down right when I tried to press the reply button. The second time (a day later) I typed it from memory and got it wrong.

Certainly C and S don't have to be the contact and the submarine. They can be anything where "C" is the speed of the "interceptee" and "S" is the speed of the "interceptor." Torpedo shooting is assumed to not be a factor since this thread is all about intercepting which is done at ranges far exceeding torpedo range.

Eventually I did end up using the law of sines to solve it rather quickly. You should see the 8 pages of very pretty and probably correct trigonometry that was leading me into madness.

09-01-09, 10:21 PM	#19
Frederf Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 665 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 1	You know I had it with 2 sines the first time when I actually worked it out but Subsim.com went down right when I tried to press the reply button. The second time (a day later) I typed it from memory and got it wrong. Certainly C and S don't have to be the contact and the submarine. They can be anything where "C" is the speed of the "interceptee" and "S" is the speed of the "interceptor." Torpedo shooting is assumed to not be a factor since this thread is all about intercepting which is done at ranges far exceeding torpedo range. Eventually I did end up using the law of sines to solve it rather quickly. You should see the 8 pages of very pretty and probably correct trigonometry that was leading me into madness. Last edited by Frederf; 09-01-09 at 10:45 PM.