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ah! on to XXI reloading then!
Posted by: Mark ()
Date: November 03, 2002 10:56PM

Thanks Rainer, if 50m is good enough for Mr. Henke, it's good enough for me. :)

Besides, I just saw a mention of US WWII pneumatic tubes being limited to 200ft (60m) so I guess that makes a lot of sense.

Say, you wouldn't happen to know how the reloading system on the XXI worked, would you? All I know is:

a) It was at least partially automated
b) Groner lists reloading times as "first reload 11-15 mins, second reload 15.75-18.75 mins"
c) There's the oft-quoted figure of "three salvos in 18 minutes)

But... how did the torpedoes reload? Were they loaded in series (one at a time), or in parallel (two or more simultaneously)? And what the heck to Groner's numbers mean? :)

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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