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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Where TMO and duds are concerned, Your best bet is to pay attention to the weather. If it's calm, use magnetic; if its rough, use impact. Just realize that in rough weather, your chances of a proper torpedo is very low.
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How does the rough sea influence the magnetic detonator? Just because the target will move up and down, hence having a possibility that the torpedo-ship distance will be too great (not widthstanding the deep-running problem early war)?
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Originally Posted by LukeFF
Long story short:
- The deep-running problem was finally admitted to by BuOrd in August 1942, and fixes for this problem were issued to the fleet not long afterwards.
- Submarines under Lockwood's command began firing Mark 14's with the magnetic exploder (officially) deactivated in late June 1943. There never was a fix for getting the magnetic exploder to work properly.
- Mark 14s with a properly-functioning impact detonator first left for patrol at the very end of September 1943.
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Is this what is roughly modeled in TMO, or do we get pretty much the same duds ratio throughout the war?
Ian