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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Sure would be interesting to know the history and development of their TVR, which was just as admirable a piece of engineering as the American TDC.
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Yes, it is interesting, and the tvre.org site provides quite a bit of that history and development background, going back to the first torpedo fire control systems developed to support the first "automobile torpedoes" (as they were styled). If you are actually interested in this topic, I think you would find the entire site worth reading. I can't vouch for the accuracy of the material. The site has extensive source attribution, but I haven't tried to cross-check those sources.
The tvre.org home page contains this "mission statement":
"The goal of the
Torpedo Vorhaltrechner Project is to describe the development of the torpedo fire control systems used on submarines. The project evolved from an attempt to create a description of the German torpedo data computer that was manufactured by the
Siemens Company and used on German U-Boats, known as a
Torpedo Vorhaltrechner. Many incomplete and often inconsistent descriptions of this device can be found in books and on the Internet.
"During my research into this equipment I discovered the full scope of the torpedo fire control problem. For that reason, aside from a description of the German torpedo data computer, this project includes descriptions of similar American, British and Japanese devices as well as the history of the development of such systems - from the beginning of the torpedo weapon’s existence to modern times"
Unfortunately, I couldn't find the name of the site's author, so I can't give him proper credit. If anyone knows, please post it. He(she) has done a major piece of scholarly research.
EDIT: And I still hope that someone (TorpX?) will post a reference for the TVR description which indicates that it does
not have automatic input for taget bearing and sub heading. Because this source is likely describing an earlier version of the TVR (pre-1941, when the S3 went into service), and it would be nice to have more information about those earlier versions. Anybody help?