Enemy fire was tracking more accurately, as their fire control computers picked out the targets from the clutter that were maneuvering independently.
Against what he'd thought he faced, it had made sense to maintain unit separation, give each ship room to maneuver independently within the envelope of the task group's combined point defense.
"I'm informed Repulse has notified the fleet that she'll be maneuvering independently. "
Several remote shards from the pod's tail assembly accompany me, maneuvering independently.
Far better, when being chased, to maneuver independently and set up a more difficult targeting problem for the attackers.
A firing ship and its target would maneuver independently at various ranges and at various speeds and in convergent or divergent courses.
Their own wall had completely disintegrated as the units which composed it died, and they maneuvered independently, twisting in desperate, despairing efforts to interpose their wedges.
Not for the first time she wished she'd been born with the eyes of a chameleon: side-rigged and independently maneuvered.
The TDC with target tracking gives the submarine the ability to maneuver independently of the required target intercept course for the torpedo.
Many more, though, said they doubted that the unwieldy body would ever exert any real power because the six most important opposition groups within it continue to maneuver independently.