Accurate Lengths Of IJN ships ?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by LCQ_SH

Is that so?? Is there any good piece of literature I can read about that??

Germans used what Americans call constant bearing techniques, aiming at a point that the enemy must pass with targeting methods where range, and thus target identification, cancels out of the equation. You COULD ID the target if you wished. It didn't matter. You still hit the target.

Go to the SH3 forum and search for "Fast 90." You can also read "Clear the Bridge" by Dick O'Kane, where he describes the technique. I don't think he explains that the technique came from the U-Boats, but Eugene Fluckey in "Thunder Below" wasn't bashful about saying it at all. American skippers studied the accomplishments of U-boat skippers to learn anything they could, in order to do better.