SubMines - SLMM

[Molon Labe]

Let me try to take a stab at some of those others too. Again though, I don't speak doctrine so these are just guesses.

So please correct me if i am wrong and correct my answers for LWAMI mod 103 use of SLMMS.

1. If let lose a SLMM greater than 600 feet my mines will not work.

2. If their destination is placed facing slope they will not work. This means SLMM ark of detection cannot be touching a slope that has an incline greater than 10 degrees.

3. If range greater than 20 miles, then SLMM reaches it endurance.

4. SLMMs can be placed only on a flat surface and any surface that has a 10 degree incline. Or less but not over -10 degrees decline.

5. SLMMs can only be placed at depths lower than 300 feet

1. I agree with your interpretation of this section. I think this is the same as, say, a missile failing at launch because ownship was too deep at the time of launch.

2. I think the range/orderalt code section orders the weapon begin to descend to the bottom when it is 500m from the destination.

3. I think the range/destination code sets a variable which is fed into the decleration/overshoot bug fix.

4. refer back to 2.

5. From the documentation, it sounds right.

On 2 and 4 generally, I don't think there is anything programed in the doctrine to prevent use on slopes or to impair the detection cone. As far as I know, the sensor has a given range and will explode when you are within that range. It's possible that terrain is a contraint, but I'm not aware of that. As for working on slopes, I don't think the mines are intentionally programmed not to work on them, but I think that in getting the weapon to hover, that sometimes the bottom where it is programed to stop is shallower than the bottom where the descend code was triggered, and this causes the weapon to bottom out and dissapear.