CMANO - To Kill a Kilo: By JC

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Sunday, July 2, 2017
By: JC
CMANO - To Kill a Kilo


Inspired by an scenario from other old but great naval simulation, this custom scenario has me hunting for two Iranian Project 877 Kilo class diesel submarines. The waters are shallow -which favors the Iranians- and the location is the Strait of Hormuz.



I'm in command of a single nuclear submarine, Los Angeles class.



Note how because of the shallow waters I can't deploy my towed passive sonars. This is a great disadvantage because the towed sonars offer better detection of low sound frequencies which travel way farther than high frequency ones.



Three hours and a half into the scenario, I'm handled two contacts. The ranges are really close. But my submarine is not yet detected.



Some twenty minutes later I have closed in with the contact to spit distance (note the scale bar at the bottom, in meters) but my crew was not able to classify the contact. All of the sudden, the contact fired on me (red icon with a small T is for a torpedo) and my crew quick draw two of our own



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