Angle Of Bow.......Quick Question

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Another way to simply think about it is to imagine you're holding two flashlights on the bridge of the target ship. Straight ahead is 0, directly behind you is 180. Aim one directly ahead of you, and the other at the submarine. Whatever the angle between the two flashlight beams, that's your AOB. In other words, if the sub is directly aside you on the starboard side, it'd be a 90 degree starboard AOB. If it's directly aside you on the port side, it's a 90 degree port AOB.

I think that's "bearing", not "AOB".

EDIT: relative bearing, anyways. The course to a target, considering a north/south line, is "true bearing", whereas the course to a target, considering your own axis ov advance, is "relative bearing". What you are describing is relative bearing, not AOB.

'AOB' is the direction towards which the target is pointing, as you look at it directly.