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tater · 09-12-07, 10:03 PM

Sorry for the OT.

US fish were horrible. If they didn't fail with the magnetic pistol, they failed to detonate with anything close to a 90 degree impact on contact.

It;s really hard to tell how terrible they were because US doctrine was also poor. Early on, many attacks were made on sonar alone from 100ft down. Also, the doctrine for the magnetic pistol was to set the fish under the keel. That makes sense, but they set the fish to run 10-15 feet below the keel! They would not have detonated even had the fish not all run 10-12 feet deep. So the fish will only work on magnetic close to the hull, and they all shoot them too deep to work, and on top of that the fish run deep.

So the fish were all running 20+ feet below the keel of the targets (ALL ran 10-12 feet deep, NO early mk 14s ran true to depth, they were all calibrated wrong).

tater

09-12-07, 10:03 PM	#884
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Sorry for the OT. US fish were horrible. If they didn't fail with the magnetic pistol, they failed to detonate with anything close to a 90 degree impact on contact. It;s really hard to tell how terrible they were because US doctrine was also poor. Early on, many attacks were made on sonar alone from 100ft down. Also, the doctrine for the magnetic pistol was to set the fish under the keel. That makes sense, but they set the fish to run 10-15 feet below the keel! They would not have detonated even had the fish not all run 10-12 feet deep. So the fish will only work on magnetic close to the hull, and they all shoot them too deep to work, and on top of that the fish run deep. So the fish were all running 20+ feet below the keel of the targets (ALL ran 10-12 feet deep, NO early mk 14s ran true to depth, they were all calibrated wrong). tater Last edited by tater; 09-13-07 at 03:26 PM.