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Bent Periscope · 04-28-09, 10:10 AM

If you're running from a destroyer, how far away do you fire your aft torpedo if you are letting the destroyer get as close as possible. Obviously, it can't be 300 meters since the destroyer is also in motion and so the torpedo will not travel the full distance when it meets the destroyer.

What if you are charging the destroyer or other ship and he is also heading towards you? What tactic do you employ? When do you fire? Dive? Do you fire at PD or wait until you hit a certain depth, say 20 meters? Do you crash dive but immediately reduce or cut engines while turning so the destroyer doesn't hear you or do you keep the engines blaring away?

Or do you just never challenge a destroyer?

Thanks,
BP

04-28-09, 10:10 AM	#7
Bent Periscope Lieutenant Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Dry docks of Los Angeles, CA Posts: 250 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	If you're running from a destroyer, how far away do you fire your aft torpedo if you are letting the destroyer get as close as possible. Obviously, it can't be 300 meters since the destroyer is also in motion and so the torpedo will not travel the full distance when it meets the destroyer. What if you are charging the destroyer or other ship and he is also heading towards you? What tactic do you employ? When do you fire? Dive? Do you fire at PD or wait until you hit a certain depth, say 20 meters? Do you crash dive but immediately reduce or cut engines while turning so the destroyer doesn't hear you or do you keep the engines blaring away? Or do you just never challenge a destroyer? Thanks, BP