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Originally Posted by ikalugin
How does tube angling affect launch safety?
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It's more a matter of a force pushing the torpedo out of the tube. I think the tubes are angled only out of necessity (with the end on the side of the ship).
Think of it like that. At 3Gs acceleration in 1 second the torpedo will move by 15 meters and can accelerate from 0 to 56 knots. Looking at the cutaway pictures the torpedo tube seems to be about 13m, so it will easily clear the tube in one second and I assume it then slows down to 50 (or whatever the torp. is set to) due to drag.
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Originally Posted by Julhelm
And what is it like on subs that have bow tubes?
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I think this varies from ship to ship. The only example of loading the forward facing tubes that I was able to find was the already mentioned HMCS Victoria.
It seems that the only thing that's different is the way torpedoes are placed before the tube.