General Discussions  
This is the place to discuss general issues related to the U-boat war or the war at sea in WWII. 
Go to: Forum List•Message List•New Topic•Search•Log In•Print View
New rotors
Posted by: SuperKraut ()
Date: August 20, 2001 08:45PM

<HTML>You greatly exaggerate the expense and inconvenience of issuing new rotors. First of all they were rather cheap to make, just some copper wire, some contacts and some Bakelite. Couriers with secret documents traveled to military units on the front regularly and they could easily have carried the rotors. Besides, at least 3 rotors were issued during the course of the war. Issuing them to ships and Luftwaffe units is even easier since they are behind the front.

Another alternative is to design a reusable rotor which can be opened and the wiring shuffled, so all that needed to be done was to issue a piece of paper with the wiring diagram to each Enigma clerk. Note the wiring pattern was no great secret for the clerks since they could easily work it out with some wire and a light bulb.

Regards,
SuperKraut</HTML>

Options: Reply•Quote


Subject Written By Posted
Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war? Frank Blazich 08/19/2001 05:52PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war oliver 08/19/2001 06:17PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war walter M 08/19/2001 06:28PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Joe Brennan 08/20/2001 06:09AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 01:39AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war kurt 08/19/2001 08:18PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war oliver 08/19/2001 08:30PM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war kurt 08/20/2001 02:38AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 01:42AM
Enigma security SuperKraut 08/20/2001 11:50AM
RE: Enigma security Frank Blazich 08/20/2001 07:15PM
New rotors SuperKraut 08/20/2001 08:45PM
RE: New rotors Torlef 08/21/2001 05:53AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Joe Brennan 08/20/2001 05:53AM
RE: Why were deck guns kept for so long in the war Antonio Veiga 08/21/2001 09:00PM


Go to: Forum List•Message List•Search•Log In
Your Name: 
Your Email: 
Subject: 
Spam prevention:
Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically.
 **     **  **    **  **      **  ********   ******** 
 **     **  ***   **  **  **  **  **     **  **    ** 
 **     **  ****  **  **  **  **  **     **      **   
 **     **  ** ** **  **  **  **  ********      **    
 **     **  **  ****  **  **  **  **           **     
 **     **  **   ***  **  **  **  **           **     
  *******   **    **   ***  ***   **           **