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Re: RE: submerged targets
Posted by: Natter ()
Date: August 27, 2011 04:19PM

kurt Wrote:
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> The point is, torpedoes were designed for shooting
> at surface tagets, and I doubt the depth setting
> mechanism on the torpedoes had settings of for
> anything beyond a few tens of feet.

You're right.
The most common german torpedoes (G7a and G7e, which both had the same depth-control mechanism) had a maximum depth of 12 metres (approx. 40 feet).

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submerged targets Piet Stein 11/02/2000 08:56AM
RE: submerged targets Antonio Veiga 11/02/2000 08:07PM
RE: submerged targets David W 11/03/2000 01:42AM
RE: submerged targets Steve Cooper 11/03/2000 01:33PM
RE: submerged targets kurt 11/03/2000 09:49PM
Re: RE: submerged targets Natter 08/27/2011 04:19PM
Re: RE: submerged targets Natter 03/23/2013 10:37PM
RE: submerged targets Andrew Hetherington 11/05/2000 03:27PM
RE: submerged targets Rainer Bruns 11/05/2000 04:45PM
RE: submerged targets Jerry Pope 11/06/2000 01:23PM
RE: submerged targets Kurt 11/21/2000 05:56PM
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RE: submerged targets Rainer Bruns 11/16/2000 01:35PM
RE: submerged targets Richard Mickle 11/16/2000 03:13PM
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RE: submerged targets Antonio Veiga 11/16/2000 10:08PM
RE: submerged targets Rich Mickle 11/17/2000 10:40AM
RE: submerged targets Anders Wingren 11/20/2000 06:17PM


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