Mark 10 question

[Vaux]

I'm starting my second carreer so I could upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 and load TMO 2.0. I just got too annoyed with stock 1.4 and ended my first carreer in late '42.

I've decided to up the realism a litlle in my second carreer and have enabled dud torps. It's December 9th and I'm just leaving Manila in my S18.

Question: Did the Mark 10 torps suffer from the same problems that the Mark 14s did? Should I set my depth on the Mark 10s to zero?

[Diopos]

"Question: Did the Mark 10 torps suffer from the same problems that the Mark 14s did? Should I set my depth on the Mark 10s to zero?"

Consider them (the Mk 10s) "reliable".


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[sergei]

They can run deep, but only by 3-4 feet IIRC.
Also in TMO 2.0, there is a chance of duds.

However, when compared to the Mark 14, they are incredibly reliable.

[Platapus]

Sergei is correct. At the start of the war, the Mk 10 had a tendency to run about 4 feet deeper, but this was discovered and corrected in 1942. The Mk-10 also used the Mk-3 contact exploder which was a little bit more reliable than the Mk-5 Contact exploder.

What always confused me is that if the BurOrd could recognize the depth problems with the MK-10, why didn't they test the MK-14 until later in the war?