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Originally Posted by CaptainCox
@Beery. does all the torps go dud/misfire also late 43 and onward? I am running a career in 43 and i had like 6 duds/1 early out of 9 fired. Maybe it has been discussed here earlier, but this gigantic thread is just to big to sift through. I thought that "On July 24, 1943, he ordered his submarines to deactivate the Mark VI magnetic influence detonators and fire for contact hits only." etc etc
http://www.military.com/Content/More...file=PRtorpedo
Or is there another reason for this in RFB? I mean, sure, you are more on edge now  but, seems an awful lot of duds...at least late 43.
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Can't remember where I read it, but I thought the torpedo issue wasn't really ironed out until september of 1943. Just deactivating the mag detonator wouldn't fix the bad contact pins.