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Question about TMB Mines

Posted by: zakarpatska ()

Date: February 15, 2013 01:20AM

Hello to the forum.

I have a question about the TMB mines and I was hoping these could be answered here. How were these mines launched? I believe that up to three mines could be placed in a torpedo tube. This leads me to wonder:
- could the mines be launched individually or did all three have to be launched at once?
- If the mines could be launched individually, how were they launched? What was the actual mechanism for ejecting a single mine from a torpedo tube and leaving the other mines behind in the tube?
- Wouldn't the submarine be moving forward when the mine was launched? Wasn't there a danger of the submarine colliding with the mine after it was launched if the mine was launched from a forward torpedo tube? I do understand that the mines had a timing mechanism and were not armed until the submarine had left the area.

Any and all information on these questions would be appreciated.

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Question about TMB Mines	zakarpatska	02/15/2013 01:20AM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	Ken Dunn	02/16/2013 01:22PM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	zakarpatska	02/16/2013 05:35PM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	SnakeDoc	02/18/2013 10:37AM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	zakarpatska	02/20/2013 01:02AM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	SnakeDoc	02/24/2013 08:22PM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	Martin Ayling	09/13/2017 07:07PM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	Martin Ayling	09/14/2017 06:26PM
Re: Question about TMB Mines	Herman MARECHAL	02/28/2018 11:38AM
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zakarpatska Wrote:
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> Hello to the forum.
> 
> I have a question about the TMB mines and I was
> hoping these could be answered here. How were
> these mines launched? I believe that up to three
> mines could be placed in a torpedo tube. This
> leads me to wonder:
> - could the mines be launched individually or did
> all three have to be launched at once?
> - If the mines could be launched individually, how
> were they launched? What was the actual mechanism
> for ejecting a single mine from a torpedo tube and
> leaving the other mines behind in the tube?
> - Wouldn't the submarine be moving forward when
> the mine was launched? Wasn't there a danger of
> the submarine colliding with the mine after it was
> launched if the mine was launched from a forward
> torpedo tube? I do understand that the mines had a
> timing mechanism and were not armed until the
> submarine had left the area.
> 
> Any and all information on these questions would
> be appreciated.