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Originally Posted by jerm138
I had heard a little about the torpedo scandal before. I thought it was more about the switches/detonators.
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Nah, it was about the captains being bad shots. Then they figured out that every single one couldn't be a bad shot. The some of the captains had their torpedo guys disable the magnetic detonators, with the idea that when they were set very shallow they would pre-det, and when they weren't they wouldn't go off at all. Y'know, if they're running too deep...
Then they figured out that the mags really weren't reliable and started to fix them. Then they figured out that the contact pistols were having problems too. Then the mags still had problems, so the new gun in town, Lockwood, decided to do some tests, using nets to catch them.
And sure enough, the magnetic pistols needed fixing, the contact pistols needed fixing, the depth mechanisms needed fixing, and even when they were all fixed the Australia-based boats continued to have problems. Seems the man in charge there, Christie, was responsible for the development of some of that stuff, and of course it couldn't be his fault, so he refused to use the 'fixed' fish.
And so it goes...