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Re: Post war tin fish.
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: October 17, 2001 11:00AM

<HTML>The US took a leaf from the German's in their electric torpedo development during the war. Everyone agrees to that.

But by the end of the war there was a big buearacracy and a lot of people in the US working on advanced torpedo designs, including homing torpedoes etc.

I have not heard anyone say that postwar US torpedo dev't was helped by captured Japanese or German torpedoes, even though there were some admiring words for the Japanese Long Lance (such as in 'Sink 'em All' by Adm Lockwood). By the end of the war I most Americans considered their torpedoes better than the Germans, particularly with regards to homing technology. No source I have heard of mentions German influence on postwar torpedo dev't like the Type XXI did in submarine design.

If you have examples (with references) of specific technologies that were copied, I would be interested to hear of it.

Thanks</HTML>

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Post war tin fish. james stewart 10/16/2001 10:32PM
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Re: Post war tin fish. kurt 10/17/2001 11:00AM
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Re: Post war tin fish. Forest 10/18/2001 04:03AM
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Re: Post war tin fish. Jim 10/18/2001 09:17PM
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Re: Post war tin fish. Jim 10/19/2001 01:13AM
Re: Post war tin fish. kurt 10/19/2001 03:15PM
Re: Post war tin fish. Jim 10/19/2001 06:19PM
Thomas Edison invented a wire-guided torpedo Forest 10/20/2001 10:08PM
Re: Thomas Edison invented a wire-guided torpedo Jim 10/20/2001 10:41PM
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Re: Post war tin fish. J.T. McDaniel 10/19/2001 02:51AM
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