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Originally Posted by WEBSTER
i think the poor real life results were mainly from the shorter US torpedos not staying true to course from wave effects and not poor solutions. even though the data wasnt spot on, they would quickly make their own changes to the manual numbers with their own corrections and pass those on to others just like they would do their own torpedo mods and share those tricks as well. i dont think we give them enough credit for adjusting to an inaccurate rec manual and getting accurate targeting based on their own tweaks to it even though results werent great.
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Here we go again..."I think this," "I think that," etc., etc.
The Mark 14 may have had its share of problems, but they were
not due to the ocean being so choppy and rough that it would make torpedoes run off course. If there were problems with torpedoes running off course (as was the case most often with Mark 10s) it was because of a faulty part in that particular torpedo or, in the case of the Mark 10, because the torpedoes had been used repeatedly in target practice, thus wearing down the steering mechanism of the torpedo. All of this is documented in the patrol reports and the research conducted to weed out the faults of the Mark 14.