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"mine" vice "torpedo"
Posted by: Mark ()
Date: November 03, 2002 09:08AM

Ah, I had forgotten about the side benefit of avoiding the torpedo establishment gained by calling it a mine :)

The note about them being called "depth charges" was from Robert Gannon's Black may. Don't have it on me, but he wrote that FIDOs were logged as "600lb depth charges", versus actual depth charges, which were "600lb depth bombs". I'm pretty sure I'm wrong on what the weight was, though.

Faster motors on FIDO's might have caused problems due to the increased flow noise. The German acoustic torpedoes, for instance, still had their speed reduced to <25 knots from 30 for a standard electric torpedo, and those were full sized torps. Lightweight, high-speed, electric torps might have been more difficult to make. This is all speculation on my part of course.

But you're right, a faster (24kt) torpedo would still be able to catch an XXI often.

Mark

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Re: Fido(s) walter M 10/23/2002 06:00PM
Re: Fido(s) ROBERT M. 10/27/2002 09:06PM
Re: Ranier: fido speed Don 10/26/2002 12:46PM
Re: Ranier: fido speed MCE 10/26/2002 02:12PM
Re: Ranier: fido speed Rainer Bruns 10/26/2002 02:58PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/26/2002 05:08PM
Re: Fido(s) walter M 10/26/2002 07:34PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/26/2002 10:08PM
Re: Fido(s) Sniper 10/27/2002 09:59AM
Re: Fido(s) ROBERT M. 10/27/2002 02:04PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/27/2002 05:11PM
Re: Fido(s) ROBERT M. 10/27/2002 09:32PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/28/2002 07:03PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/27/2002 04:23PM
Re: Fido(s) ROBERT M. 10/27/2002 03:33AM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/27/2002 03:39AM
Re: Fido(s) ROBERT M. 10/27/2002 02:32PM
Re: Fido(s) Patrick Meagher 10/27/2002 04:45PM
Good Allied Doctrine Mark K 11/02/2002 10:17PM
Re: Good Allied Doctrine ROBERT M. 11/03/2002 02:42AM
&quot;mine&quot; vice &quot;torpedo&quot; Mark 11/03/2002 09:08AM
Re: &quot;mine&quot; vice &quot;torpedo&quot; ROBERT M. 11/03/2002 02:27PM
Re: &quot;mine&quot; vice &quot;torpedo&quot; Sniper 11/03/2002 04:05PM
I think we agree then: Mark 11/03/2002 11:02PM
Re: I think we agree then: ROBERT M. 11/04/2002 04:26AM
Re: Good Allied Doctrine ROBERT M. 11/03/2002 03:26AM
Re: Good Allied Doctrine Sander Kingsepp 11/06/2002 08:15AM


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