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Originally Posted by Fifi
Thanks, ok i see...
Other little question about US sub:
Playing with DUD on, i don’t see much of bad ones, and in 42 none of them.
I know they had some troubles like the German ones at start of war, but it was so quickly solved?
I’m not US side specialist  |
Many people don't know it but American torpedoes were historically crap. That's a technical term appreciated at the time. So some bright-eyed American captured a beached German torpedo. They took it apart and copied it exactly, EVEN THE DEFECTS! And so our Mark 14 had all the exact same problems the German torpedoes had.
Bottom line: you already have experience with American torpedoes. Isn't that great? Oh, the Germans, believing in their front line people, identified and fixed the problems pretty quickly. American Navy, being a strictly topside geniuses and front line idiot organization removed sub captains who thought they had torpedo problems, denied they existed and lost a lot of good skippers. The geniuses didn't want to skipper their own boats so they just found more idiots.
That fell apart when Admiral Lockwood made the mistake of befriending one of his idiot sub jockeys, Dudley Morton of the Wahoo, and when "Dud" reported a boatload of duds (see what I did there?), Lockwood had him return so the torpedoes could be checked out. Guess what they found? You're smarter than an Admiral! Where were you when we needed you?
