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Old 06-27-07, 09:27 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by Phantom Mark
After reading this post I did some testing on this topic.

I have tried Mk23's and Mk14's on both contact and magnetic, had pretty much the same results already posted here, on both settings I had torps litraly skimming the bottom of the hull of a CV, all passed directly underneath with no explosion no matter what the settings were. The only time I could score a hit was by running the depth slightly more shallow so it actually strikes the hull.

Again... I have personally succsessfully used magnetic detonations. Then again Ive had some just keep on going.

Maybe I got lucky.
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