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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco
yes, their G7a was essentially the same fish as our Mk14.
not sure who stole what from whom but, after all was said and done, it was like Spy v Spy in the old Mad magazine.
i do not think that the G7a/Mk14 were circle runners as much as the Mk18, but you could see them coming and they ran deep and they failed to explode.
it could be that an over-enthusiastic Ubi designer added it to the German side out of enthusiasm. |
Yes, in my research I noticed there was some cross over, more than would be possible by simple coincidence, so likely some spying going on. Well MK 14 had bit of circle runner problems earlier in war...Grunion is believed to have been damage by MK 14 circle run exploded close to her when submerged. Tulibee was lost to a MK 14 circle run in March 1944. but yes MK 18, especially the MK 18-1 had among depth keeping and battery issues, circle run issues.
Interesting enough, sure you know, the MK 18 design was based on a German TII G7e electric torpedo which did not explode and ran up on the beach when was fired close to shore. G7e had depth control issues until Spring 1942. So the design flawed carried over from captured torpedo into the MK 18. No exploder issues with MK 18 because it used the simple MK 8 exploder, contact only, with the new firing pins that solved the dud issue.
All research thus far, have not read about U Boat's suffering circle run. I mean its possible and may have happened, but figured it would be mentioned. I did not remove it from the torpedo.sim file since such a small chance, when reworked them to match history .