RE: Anti-escort device
Posted by:
Antonio Veiga
()
Date: August 02, 2001 06:43PM
<HTML>Hi Tom
Please read this
\"The FaT II (torpedo) was designed to operate similarly to FAT I except that it was restricted to long leg or circle run settings.This latter setting was intended to allow the Fat to be used as a stop-gap anti-escort weapon, until the first acoustic torpedoes became available.The idea was that a Fat II would be fired from the stern
tube in the path of a pursuing escort, where it would loiter running a small loop until the escort ran into it.The first Fat IIs were introduced to the Mediterranean and Norway in May 1943 and to the Atlantic in June\"
Source: Robert C. Stern \"Type VII U-boats\" pages 87 and 88.
As you can see this system is very similar to your idea.(Nihil novum sub sole).
Best regards</HTML>
Please read this
\"The FaT II (torpedo) was designed to operate similarly to FAT I except that it was restricted to long leg or circle run settings.This latter setting was intended to allow the Fat to be used as a stop-gap anti-escort weapon, until the first acoustic torpedoes became available.The idea was that a Fat II would be fired from the stern
tube in the path of a pursuing escort, where it would loiter running a small loop until the escort ran into it.The first Fat IIs were introduced to the Mediterranean and Norway in May 1943 and to the Atlantic in June\"
Source: Robert C. Stern \"Type VII U-boats\" pages 87 and 88.
As you can see this system is very similar to your idea.(Nihil novum sub sole).
Best regards</HTML>
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