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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
It's too bad the real kaleuns didn't have that option. There was no switch that let you select one or the other, or at least not until 1944. Disabling the magnetic pistol required removing it from the torpedo, a process that took at least an hour. Once the order was given in 1940 to remove them they were all removed, and not replaced until the new version came out late in 1943.
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I must notice Sailor Steve spoke a nonsence on this topic
If you ever read the document yourself Mister, you should know that in page 51 there is following text:
Back in Germany, the TI had in the meantime been working on a way to alter the torpedo
pistol so that it might be set for either AZ or MZ detonation. By the end of September, it had
come up with such a device, which was known as Schalterstellung A (Switch Setting A). The
introduction of the device to the fleet on October 2 came just in time, as it now made it possible
to carry out Dönitz***8217; previous orders that all boats were to fire using only the AZ setting. A new
directive to this effect was issued to the fleet.69 The downside to this order, however, was that
although it theoretically gave the German U-boats a way to switch to a more reliable detonation,
the resultant AZ induced explosion lacked the sheer destructive power of the MZ type. Hence
the Schalterstellung A was never considered by anyone to be a permanent fix to the torpedo
problem, but rather a temporary emergency measure to buy the TI some time in which to perfect
the MZ type, which had always been envisioned by the Marineleitung as being the primary
detonator system for the U-boat. In any event, from October 2 onwards boats equipped with
pistols using the Schalterstellung A option were to use only the AZ option until further notice.
So literrraly speaking this was very short period of time - The first MONTH of the war during which U-boats could not switch pistols AZ-MZ and vice versa 