wire guidance - re-attack

[zamfe]

hi there,

does anyone has some info on real-life behavior of wire guided torpedos in re-attack situations. can you really make acrobatic manuvers (eights..) like in dw?

merry religious happenings:doh:

[Rip]

hi there,

does anyone has some info on real-life behavior of wire guided torpedos in re-attack situations. can you really make acrobatic manuvers (eights..) like in dw?

merry religious happenings:doh:

You can make substantial adjustments to the weapon via the wire IRL. As long as you don't break it. Some may require the override of ASH (Anti-Ship Homing) which is something that is never done without tactical necessity.

[zamfe]

hi rip,

do you happen to know the cable breaks at certain tight angles?
and by override of the ASH you mean the equivalent of pre-enable / disable homing in dw? because this seem to be extremly usefull in the game.

thanks for reply

[Rip]

The cable breaks by a number of things. Both based on what the weapon is doing and ownship. Doubt the actual details matter that much. Simply there is a chance of losing the wire.

ASH simply shuts down the weapon if it changes course by more than a certain amount. Meant to stop the weapon from reversing at ownship. I'm pretty sure everyone uses such a protection. They just call it different things.