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Originally Posted by TorpX
I think the idea that track angles had to be 90 degrees, or nearly so, and gyro angles zero, or close to it, is something of an old wives tale.
Here is a pertinent quote from Roscoe's US Submarine Operations Of WWII. [I realize this is not the same as KM experience, but geometry is geometry.]
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I suspect that was the case not because of trigonometry issue of the target solution, but for the specific problems with the impact pistol of the American torpedo.
The German uboat had their peculiar problem too with the impact pistol but their case called for a perpendicular impact angle between torpedo and target for the pistol to function properly while the American torpedo impact pistol would have its pins bent at such an angle.