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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
We're much luckier than the real kaleuns were. They didn't have a switch that could give you one or the other. To change the torpedo warhead had to be physically removed and the pistos switch out. The operation took about an hour.
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Sorry to necro this, but...
I've always been curious about this aspect. I've always been under the impression this is true with US torpedoes but I've never read anything about German torpedoes.
So one of my "personal realism settings" has always been to select one or the other prior to action and not switch it in the middle of the action, both in SH3 and SH4.
While surfing last night, I came across this on the U-boat Archive website about torpedo pistols:
"
Pi 2 (Pi 39H) December 1942 Selectable impact and magnetic or impact alone (new German designed magnetic detonator - impact mechanism same as Pi1) G7e TIII "
Here's the link showing the whole article and all of the different pistols and dates used(it is less than a third of the way down on the page):
http://www.uboatarchive.net/KTBNotesArmament.htm
I interperate that as it was selectable at time of firing from 12/42 on on the T3 eels. Earlier pistols didn't seem to be selectable. I'm going to try to some more digging and see if I can find anything more definite.
