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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.
huh. never ACTUALLY fired a circle running torpedo. how does that work cause that makes no sense at all to me. how does a torpedo take a course that makes it go in an endless loop
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Physically the rudder gets jammed left or right.
It usually occurs when a torpedo is shot with some offset. The greater the offset the tighter the circle. Normally an offset shot leaves the tube, makes a turn / course correction, then straightens out. Circle runners never straighten out they just keep on turning. They just keep running in a circle till they run out of steam or hit something.
Note that nearly all shots have some degree of offset in them.
Honestly as many hours that I have played I have only seen it twice and both of those times I had gone deep already and they just wizzed by. Nervous moments at the sonar though
