[TorpX]

First, the German and US magnetic pistols were of different designs. I don't know much about the German type.

Lockwood did improve the Mk 14 torpedo, but I don't think the mark 6 exploder was ever fixed. By that I mean it was considered irredemably flawed. From what I have read, there were three exploders used with the Mk 14 torpedo:

1. the mk 6 exploder.......................................mag netic/impact
2. the "Pearl Harbor" exploder............................impact only
3. an electrical type exploder.............................impact only

The "Pearl Harbor" exploder was some sort of improvisation; not a BuOrd purpose designed unit. I don't know the details of it. The last type was a completely new design, and used a ball switch to close an electrical contact and fire the detonator. I think this one solved the dud problem for good. AFAIK, Lockwood's impact tests, marked the end of end of efforts to use the magnetic exploder. Details about all of this tend to vary from source to source. Maybe others will post more info on this.

Can torpedoes in 43 be set to detonate at a specified range from the stadimeter? Be it that range of the ship minus beam? I know its flawed in-game but previously, in calm waters, 0 m/s , they failed to detonate (which I suppose pertinent to realism in representing flaws of the Mk6 exploder).

I'm sure the game is modeled too rigidly to permit this. SH3, from what I've read on the forums, doesn't even have torpedo malfunctions.





After reading about all these torpedo issues, I've been wondering why no attempt was made to use a earlier exploder. We had Mk 10 torpedos, and also inventories of Mk 9 and even Mk 8 torps. Could the exploders from them have been used? Also, little is written about exploders in the Mk 13 or Mk 15 torpedos (the air-launched and destroyer launched versions). They evidently did not use the mk 6 exploder. I suspect the problems could have been fixed fairly easily, if only the Navy had been willing to admit there was a problem.