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Originally Posted by CharlesRollinsWare  Seawitch;
The failure of the torpedoes to act properly with the magnectic warheads active prompted the Air Staff recomendation, agrred to from the top, that only the contact exploder be active on the mission. The subsequent results were very satisfactory! 
Mark |
Hi Mark
Thanks for that! I wondered if the point deserved it's own thread even, I was dredging my memory there as I will here, I read U Boat ace Gunther Prien's life story.
It discussed Germany's 'Torpedo scandal'....if Britain had problems with magnetic warheads Germany had disastrous failure.
Arriving in a fjord he found himself confronted by a British group of at anchor and it included the Warspite and other big ships.
His luck was not to be, he fired his entire allocation of torpedo's and not a single detonation.
I gather he wasn't alone in losing a Capitol ship target simply because the Torpedo failed.
By now a 'What if ' debate could start!
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