How did the real submariners determine target speed?

Slick Wilhelm · 04-17-08, 12:42 PM

I'm still missing a lot using manual targeting, but at least I'm getting a little bit better. It seems to me that the most difficult part is determining target speed. But I've been using Werner Sobe's "Magic Numbers" method, and that has helped quite a bit.

I've also started reading Clay Blair's Silent Victory again for the first time in about 25 years, and I've yet to see an explanation in there about how the real submariners determined target speed. At least I can take comfort in the fact that even the best skippers had patrols where they missed...a lot!

Does anyone know the method real submariners used to determine target speed? In the book there are many skippers who blame themselves for underestimating the speed of a particular target, but they don't go into detail on how that could happen.

04-17-08, 12:42 PM	#1
Slick Wilhelm Mate Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 60 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	How did the real submariners determine target speed? I'm still missing a lot using manual targeting, but at least I'm getting a little bit better. It seems to me that the most difficult part is determining target speed. But I've been using Werner Sobe's "Magic Numbers" method, and that has helped quite a bit. I've also started reading Clay Blair's Silent Victory again for the first time in about 25 years, and I've yet to see an explanation in there about how the real submariners determined target speed. At least I can take comfort in the fact that even the best skippers had patrols where they missed...a lot! Does anyone know the method real submariners used to determine target speed? In the book there are many skippers who blame themselves for underestimating the speed of a particular target, but they don't go into detail on how that could happen. __________________ "Nein! I did not have sex with that fraulein"