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Re: Torpedo tubes, firing depth, XXI's
Posted by: joe brandt ()
Date: November 03, 2002 01:51AM

To the best of my knowledge the type XXI had a pneumatic torpedo loading system but still launched the torps with a sot of compressed air that pushed a heavy piston that was positioed right behind the torop forcing it out of the tube . If you use a higher compressed air pressure you could fire the "eels " from a greater depth .

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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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