User Guide

Section 6: Navigation Station
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Age: Displays the amount of time that has passed since the last report from
the Source sensor.
Source(s): Displays sensor input for this contact. When the source is a Link
participant, the track ID of the detecting platform appears in parenthesis.
 Note: When Show Truth is on, the DDI displays the selected
contact’s actual name, class, course, speed, altitude/depth and
percentage damage.
3D VIEW
The 3D View contains a 3D representation of the contact currently hooked
(selected) on the 2D Nav Map. What appears in the 3D View depends on
how far along you are in the contact classification process.
WIRE FRAMES
Contacts detected by some of Ownship sensors display on the 3D View as
wire frames of varying shapes when the contact symbol is selected in the
Nav Map.
Sphere: Until a contact is assigned a category or class it appears as a wire-
frame
ball – an Area of Uncertainty (AOU) – in the 3D view. This indicates
only that something has been detected in this area.
Generic Sub, Ship, or Aircraft: When you designate a category for the
selected contact using the Contact Menu’s Designate Category/ID
>Category or Classify Contact option, a generic model of the selected
platform type is seen in the 3D View.
“Box Corners”: When you assign an alliance ID to a contact using the
Contact Menu’s Designate Category/ID >ID or Classify Contact option, “box
corners” of the color representing the assigned alliance surround the model.
3D MODELS
Until a specific classification has been assigned to a contact, no specific 3D
model can be displayed. As soon as a contact is classified as a specific
class of ship or aircraft, the 3D View displays the 3D model in use for the
specified class. Contacts reported by the AI Link participants usually include
a classification; therefore these contacts usually display a 3D model of a
specific class when a Link contact is selected. Ownship and Link
participants never appear as wire frames.
For solutions created in the FFG or submarine TMA station, the location of
the Nav Map symbol and the 3D object coincides with the location of your
TMA solution. That location is only as accurate as your TMA assessment.
Be aware that if your classification (or the classification provided by your
Autocrew) is incorrect, the model shown will be of the incorrect assignment.
If the Link participant classifies a contact as one category or class and you
classify it as another, both 3D models will be present in the 3D view for that