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Originally Posted by Subnuts
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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
yeah... what he said... and how come no compressed air is used when a torpedo is fired? are torpedoes not pushed out of the tubes by a blast of compressed air?
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Simple answer: The torpedoes were fired using a different compressed air system than the one that blew the ballast tanks. Maybe. |
IIRC, there were compressed air tanks located in the forward torpedo room. A large diaphram with the same dimensions as the tube was placed behind the torpedo after it was loaded into the torpedo tube. It was the compressed air pushing on the diaphram which resulted in the torpedo being pushed forward and out of the tube. The diaphram could only travel a certain distance within the tube before it came to a stop. The diaphram was removed from the tube and then another torpedo was loaded and process repeated.