External Electrics
I read today (Submarines at War 1939-45), that electric engined torpedoes were never placed in external stowage because it led to battery problems, only steam torps were ever stowed externally. Can anyone verify that?
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
Last edited by perisher; 05-20-07 at 11:15 PM.
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