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"Vic Smith" > wrote in message
news > On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:39:25 -0500, willshak > > wrote: > >Apparently, god didn't like American torpedo bombers. > Didn't much care for American torpedoes either. > Don't remember the details now, but way too many duds. > Read that in S.E. Morrison extracts and elsewhere.\ Quite true. One of the more realistic sub sims that I've played even accounted for the large percentage of duds that mostly Pacific sub commanders had to put up with early in the war. The worst thing you could hear on the hydrophone after letting loose a fish or two was the horrible dull bell-like clang of a dud torpedo hitting the hull of an enemy ship and failing to explode. In many of those cases the clang was soon followed by a torrent of depth charges which didn't have much of dud problem at all and sank a number of US subs because of the duds. Part of the problem is that commanders of the sunken subs usually didn't have time to report the duds - they were too busy to try to stay alive and that helped mask the problem for a while. http://www.ww2pacific.com/torpedo.html <<Running depth. (a.) Warheads were heavier than test heads. The wartime torpedo ran with a head down trim. The shore establishment eventually acknowledged a four foot error in running depths. Fleet tests in Australia found an 11 foot depth error. It was not until Aug'42 that a compromise of 10' was agreed and a trim repair kit was issued to the fleet later in that year. Running depth. (b.) The depth sensor was designed for a slower running torpedo. The pressure gradient over the torpedo surface at higher speeds gave the wrong feedback. The sensor was later relocated to a neutral position. The magnetic exploder was designed in the northern latitudes and did not work as well at the equator. The British and Germans had already disabled their magnetic exploders before the USN ordered theirs disabled 24June43. ComSubSWPac had participated in the development of the magnetic exploder, knew the principle was sound, and resisted disablement until Dec'43. The conventional contact exploder was designed for the earlier, slower, 33 knot, Mk 13 torpedo. The newer, faster, 46 knot, Mk 14 torpedo had higher inertial impacts that would cause the firing pin to miss the exploder cap. >> As a former Navy guy Vic, you're probably well aware that the above explanations fit very well with how the USN runs things. It takes a very large spanner to the head to get them to admit a problem, let alone fix it. (As for God not liking American torpedo bombers - it's true that they had very dismal success overall, and many pilots and planes were lost, but he appeared to like the four Japanese aircraft carriers even less. Eventually American planes were able to make decisive and deadly hits against the Japanese carriers. One pilot, as noted before, spotted the all-important destroyer wake that led him to the carrier groups. In another instance, a pilot realized the entire group of fighters was attacking a single (the closest) carrier so he broke off that attack and with another plane accompanying him sought out the other IJN carriers and killed them. I've heard the rear seat fliers (facing backwards) tell of the horrifying minute or so where the pilot would dive on the Japanese ships and all they could see were the Zeroes flying overhead as they plunged quickly downward with the back seater facing against the direction of travel. I don't even like to sit in train seats facing backwards . . .. -- Bobby G. |
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