My
earlier post of a good periscope photo of a destroyer in the crosshairs inspired an old college buddy of mine to send in a TOF shot from his boat during Rimpac '02. How'd you like to see this through the 'scope?
There was also a fifth ship in the formation that wouldn't fit into the field of vision. From the E-mail accompanying the photo:
BTW, the skimmer “judge” said it was a miss on all targets!!! (We were shooting the oiler, but figured “what the heck”, the mayhem of hitting any of the five was worth the lack of separation.)
Skimmer "judges" are funny. I remember during my first deployment, we were doing an "opposed unrep" against the
Ranger Battle Group. We had the carrier, oiler, and a destroyer all sailing along tied up together, with us 4nm ahead of them, about 2000 yds off track. The carrier guys we had riding us said they'd been told that there was no way a submarine could ever get in that position because of the "protective ASW blanket" surrounding the carrier. We laughed and laughed, shot off our flares, and radioed in that we'd be back in 30 minutes to do it again.
There was also a fifth ship in the formation that wouldn't fit into the field of vision. From the E-mail accompanying the photo:
