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vanjast · 03-02-09, 08:40 AM

A few questions with RFB
- How bad is the Mark14 dud rate with RFB.
- Are the depth keeping failure problems mainly related to the faster speed setting only, as it was discovered back then.

If all is ok, I can understand the crew's 'red level' frustration with the torps as I've sent 8 torps at 5 feet, on slow speed, at about 1500 yards at 'Large Barn doors'.
Firing a spread of 2 or 3 along the length of the ship.

Only to hear the torps 'pass through' the ship on the sonar. This sounds like a depth keeping problem - had set the torps to contact only.

03-02-09, 08:40 AM	#2782
vanjast Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Somewhere else now Posts: 1,741 Downloads: 827 Uploads: 4	A few questions with RFB - How bad is the Mark14 dud rate with RFB. - Are the depth keeping failure problems mainly related to the faster speed setting only, as it was discovered back then. If all is ok, I can understand the crew's 'red level' frustration with the torps as I've sent 8 torps at 5 feet, on slow speed, at about 1500 yards at 'Large Barn doors'. Firing a spread of 2 or 3 along the length of the ship. Only to hear the torps 'pass through' the ship on the sonar. This sounds like a depth keeping problem - had set the torps to contact only.