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RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: November 23, 2000 06:22PM

Torpedoes were set to either sink or explode at the end of the run.

This not only eliminated the navigation hazard you mention, but prevented the torpedo being siezed by the enemy. Torpedo designs contained carefully guarded secrets (such as the American\'s very secret (and very unreliable) magnetic fuse). These could be either copied or countermeasures devised if they were seized by the enemy.

Practice torpedoes were set to refloat at the end of their run, and were picked up, refurbished and re-used, some over and over again.

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Confused About Torpedoes Ken Dunn 10/31/2000 06:05PM
RE: Confused About Torpedoes joe brandt 11/01/2000 12:00AM
RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes AL Wellman 11/01/2000 01:37AM
RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes joe brandt 11/02/2000 01:55AM
RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes Roy Prince 11/05/2000 12:20AM
RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes joe 11/05/2000 02:06AM
RE: Sea Stories About Torpedoes kurt 11/23/2000 06:22PM


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