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tater · 11-25-08, 01:17 PM

BTW, I did a quick scan of the entire war for ~5k ton ships. I didn't check well vs type, so some might have been other than AKs.

That said, I counted 57 attacks on ships from ~4800-5500 tons which hit with 1 fish (rough scan), and 50 sank, 7 damaged.

88% sank with 1 fish. Some of the damages were heavy, but they either sank, or they didn't, though Gorshkov might count them as "sunk" though they never went below the surface of the sea.

The "ship types" sorting on uboat.net is screwy, BTW, count the total ships in that list, and it is grossly lower than the number of ships attacked if you add it up.

Anyway the hog island data was 94% sunk (30 sank, 2 damages). I did not check the number of fish, so that 94% is to ALL numbers of hits. If the hog island data shows 1 hit sinkings at 88% or so, then there is really no difference.

Again, a trivial difference considering the data is not as good damage wise.

I'm not seeing much in the way of real world data to support the german fish being any better than the mk14s when they actually exploded (some damage results for the mk14s were faulty torps blowing up just before striking, or were duds, BTW, so the actual hits are likely more deadly than the stats show).

11-25-08, 01:17 PM	#67
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	BTW, I did a quick scan of the entire war for ~5k ton ships. I didn't check well vs type, so some might have been other than AKs. That said, I counted 57 attacks on ships from ~4800-5500 tons which hit with 1 fish (rough scan), and 50 sank, 7 damaged. 88% sank with 1 fish. Some of the damages were heavy, but they either sank, or they didn't, though Gorshkov might count them as "sunk" though they never went below the surface of the sea. The "ship types" sorting on uboat.net is screwy, BTW, count the total ships in that list, and it is grossly lower than the number of ships attacked if you add it up. Anyway the hog island data was 94% sunk (30 sank, 2 damages). I did not check the number of fish, so that 94% is to ALL numbers of hits. If the hog island data shows 1 hit sinkings at 88% or so, then there is really no difference. Again, a trivial difference considering the data is not as good damage wise. I'm not seeing much in the way of real world data to support the german fish being any better than the mk14s when they actually exploded (some damage results for the mk14s were faulty torps blowing up just before striking, or were duds, BTW, so the actual hits are likely more deadly than the stats show). Last edited by tater; 11-25-08 at 01:23 PM.