Tactic's Question

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Originally Posted by Fifi

Only wise advice i could give, either for SH4 an 5 BTW, is if you had the chance to fire torps VS a convoy, the first thing to do is to run as fast as possible from your firing area!
You have only few minutes before all escorts around will head exactly toward your first firing position.

True is that a destroyer at slow (or medium speed) and medium range should pick up a torpedo runner with his hydrophone ("Sir, torpedo noise at 130 relative" and calculate a direction , namely 130° relative of the destroyer's act. course. If he picked up the noise very early he has the exact direction(!) towards you.


In theory a WII destroyer can calculate a roughly torpedo course at any time by monitoring the torpedo sounddirection every 30 sec. while turning the ship and calculate the course then with the 3 bearing method.
But a torpedo course is not always the u-boot course and the short timeintervalls between the bearings results in a very high imprecision.