Do these fish track

[rfxcasey]

Playing 1943 German campain with flotilla 2 and was in shallow water near liverpool when I was spotted by a patrol vessel at night. I dove to evade and launched 2 torps both missed. Well the vessel was circling trying to get a bead on me and all of a sudden he exploded and split in half. How is this as the torps clearly missed? It's like they came back boomerang style.

[Sailor Steve]

What type of eels were they? By 1943 you should have some acoustic homing torpedoes.

[rfxcasey]

Hum, don't have any eels, they would be too small for the tubes. Electric eels might be cool though. So if homers miss they will aquire a target? They seem awefully efficiant, almost like underwater sidewinders.

[BulSoldier]

If you had the earliest type of homing torpedoes the ship should have been traveling atleast 7knts in order to be target (lower speed, less sound , no target) . THe homing torps travel 300-400meters before arming and then do a slight zigzaging until they found a target.

[mookiemookie]

Maybe the ship hit a friendly mine?

[Stormende]

Maybe you fired circling torps and not acoustics. The kind that after their initial run will go in circles.