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RE: Anti-escort device
Posted by: Antonio Veiga ()
Date: August 02, 2001 06:43PM

<HTML>Hi Tom

Please read this

\"The FaT II (torpedo) was designed to operate similarly to FAT I except that it was restricted to long leg or circle run settings.This latter setting was intended to allow the Fat to be used as a stop-gap anti-escort weapon, until the first acoustic torpedoes became available.The idea was that a Fat II would be fired from the stern
tube in the path of a pursuing escort, where it would loiter running a small loop until the escort ran into it.The first Fat IIs were introduced to the Mediterranean and Norway in May 1943 and to the Atlantic in June\"

Source: Robert C. Stern \"Type VII U-boats\" pages 87 and 88.


As you can see this system is very similar to your idea.(Nihil novum sub sole).

Best regards</HTML>

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Anti-escort device Tom Iwanski 08/02/2001 03:18PM
RE: Anti-escort device Antonio Veiga 08/02/2001 06:43PM
RE: Anti-escort device walter M 08/02/2001 07:57PM
reverse hedgehog kurt 08/03/2001 12:27PM
Ursel SuperKraut 08/14/2001 10:38AM
RE: Anti-escort device Steve Cooper 08/03/2001 01:47PM


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