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Torpedo tubes, firing depth, XXI's
Posted by: Mark ()
Date: November 02, 2002 10:47PM

Howdy all.

One book I've got, "U-boats: Illustrated History of the Raiders of the Deep" by David Miller, mentions the torpedo tubes on U-boats as using pneumatic pistons, and being depth limited.

This max firing depth is mentioned as being 25-30m in this interrogation report:
[www.uboatarchive.net]

However, I've seen casual reference of the XXI submarines being capable of firing torpedoes at up to 100m depth.

I know that the reloading mechanisms were significantly different on the XXI, but what about the launcing mechanism? Does anyone have any pointers to good reference on the subject?

thanks,
Mark

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Subject Written By Posted
Torpedo tubes, firing depth, XXI's Mark 11/02/2002 10:47PM
Re: Torpedo tubes, firing depth, XXI's joe brandt 11/03/2002 01:51AM
Re: Torpedo tubes, firing depth, XXI's Rainer Bruns 11/03/2002 02:05AM
50m firing depth? Mark 11/03/2002 08:54AM
Re: 50m firing depth? Rainer Bruns 11/03/2002 07:33PM
ah! on to XXI reloading then! Mark 11/03/2002 10:56PM
Re: ah! on to XXI reloading then! Rainer Bruns 11/04/2002 01:00AM


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