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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.
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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.