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Old 12-31-07, 11:58 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by seafarer
An aside question? Is the reason for the no salvo firing due to the air cycling of the tubes? Reading http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/chap1.htm#1B there is a lot of air being exchanged within the boat, and I thought that was the reason you could not fire salvos - you had to give the air and displacement water time to cycle.
That, as well as the fact that multiple torpedoes fired at once could foul each other's runs and the magnetic exploders could interfere with each other.
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