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Originally Posted by fastfed
Great! now I'm all confused again! First subsim fans are telling me to set shallow and contact, and Steve Sailor who seems to be great friends with some Admiral Christie guy, says there is nothing wrong with the 14's..
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Don't be confused. The Mk 14 was indeed a source of nightmares for sub skippers. Confounding the problem was the fact that they didn't know what the problem was! They only knew that they were suffering a lot of "misses", and the higher-ups kept telling them it was their fault for bad shooting! As for "setting for shallow and contact", in real life they didn't have "contact" and "magnetic" settings. Both pistols were installed, and the only way to disable the magnetic pistol was to take the torpedo apart and remove it. Once someone started to figure out that there might be a problem with it some enterprising captains had their torpedo chiefs do exactly that. But there was no switch to do it on demand.
It really was a nightmare.