User Guide

• Right-click the desired target to display the Contact menu. If Ownship is at periscope depth and
has a speed of 3 kts or less, the Deploy Special Forces option is available in the Contact menu’s
Engage With menu option.
• Select
DEPLOY SPECIAL FORCES .Your Executive Officer notifies you when the team is away.
NOTE: The Deploy Special Forces menu option only appears when all of the following parameters
are met.The SF team is still on board; Ownship is traveling at 3 kts or less; Ownship is at
periscope depth or less; you are viewing the Contact menu for a surface platform, or land
site. (Special Forces cannot be deployed against air or submarine platforms.)
TO RETRIEVE SPECIAL FORCES TEAM
When you are directed to retrieve a Special Forces team,maneuver the ship to the ordered location
at the specified time and maintain the speed as designated in your tasking message.
• While mission-specific instructions may vary, generally your speed must be 3 kts or less and you
must be at periscope depth or less.
• To locate your team, you may need to use your radar and your periscope and maneuver as close
as possible to the raft.
• When you are within the time, speed and location parameters specified in your tasking message,
the XO notifies you that the Special Forces are onboard.
DEPLOYING UUVS
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are used in Sub Command as remote sonar sensors.
Merging TMA bearing information provided by a remote sensor with data from your ship’ sensors
can provide a fairly accurate assessment of the range to the contact. UUVs are particularly useful
when navigating minefields.
UUVs are launched from the Fire Control Station and are wire-guided like torpedoes.A UUV is very
quiet once deployed but launching one is just as noisy as launching a torpedo.
Passive sonar mode is on by default when a UUV is launched but active sonar mode can be
enabled at any time as long as the wire is still attached and the battery is functioning. Sonar
returns cease as soon as you cut the wire or after the UUV’s thirty-minute battery is depleted.
Since UUVs can not be retrieved, you need only close the muzzle door to cut the wire and jettison
the UUV.The tube can then be re-loaded.Altering Ownship’s course by more than 90° cuts the
wire.
Sonar returns from the UUV are automatically assigned a Contact ID and can be found in the TMA
Select drop-down list and on the Nav and Fire Control maps. UUV sonar returns do not show up on
any of the screens of the Sonar Suite although the UUV itself displays as a contact in Broadband
and Narrowband Sonar.
■ A contact detected by a UUV in passive mode appears on the Nav map as an
Unknown/Unknown symbol at the end of a white line of bearing that extends from the location
of the UUV at the time of the report.The line of bearing has a default range of 10 n.m.
■ A contact detected by a UUV in active mode appears as an Unknown/Unknown symbol at the
end of a green line of bearing.The length of the LOB indicates the range of the contact from the
UUV.
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