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Re: Aiming Torpedoes
Posted by: Yves D ()
Date: October 10, 2006 01:50PM

Hi Chris
I am not a specialist to give a full answer but what I can say is that gyro-deviation was already a normal firing procedure during WW1. U-Boats of this time had already a gyro-compass reference to keep the course when submerged. If I use the correct word, the "inclination" of the target was of course a parameter taken into account before firing a torpedo and in the U-Boat KTB's there is quite often such a reference.
Maybe somebody else will fulfill my answer.
VBR
Yves

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