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Originally Posted by jason210
Fired one torpedo, timed it for two minutes, and it covered 2700 metres. Which works out at around 43.3 Knots. It would be interesting to know if anyone else egts this speed.
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Or an error in your calculation!
According to my speed tables, at 44 knots a torp will cover 2700m in 119 seconds.
I just timed a G7a at top speed for 3.5 minutes and it covered 4750m; that equates to 44 knots.
I went and plotted distance covered every 5 seconds, got a bit of a lumpy curve because chart is only acurate to 50m.
It is interesting to note that the torp takes about 20 seconds to accelerate to running speed, then accelerates a bit more over its run to a snitch over 44 knots, then slows from about 190 seconds out 'til its runs out of steam (literally) at 225 seconds
Conversion base : 1 ms-1 = 1.9438612860586 kt