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Originally Posted by darkcurrent
I tried to look it up on wiki and all I get is:
"The term is commonly used to describe the firing of broadsides by warships, especially battleships. During fleet engagements in the days of sail, from 17th century until the 19th century, ships of the line were maneuvered with the objective of bringing the greatest possible number of cannon to bear on the enemy and to discharge them in a salvo, causing enough damage and confusion as to allow time for the cannon to be swabbed out and reloaded"
is this correct? if so, can you guys explain more clearly? I don't get what it's saying since the definition uses the word salvo itself.!
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The way they worded that is very misleading. Dictionaries define Salvo as the simultaneous discharge of weapons, firearms, bombs, artillery etc. A salvo can be a full broadside or just a couple. It was standard practice in battleships to fire one gun of each turret, so in a ship with three triple turrets like
Iowa or
Yamato, which could fire roughly twice per minute, instead of two nine-gun broadsides they could fire six three-gun salvoes, meaning less hits if the grouping was on target but three times as many chances to actually be on target in the first place.
As Mush stated, a salvo of torpedoes simply means firing more than one at the same target. SH3, and I assume the SH4 U-boat Add-on, has a selector switch that fires all the designated torpedoes at the same time, which would have been a sure-fire recipe for torpedoes hitting each other and affecting each other's magnetic exploders. What the switch did was tell the torpedo crew which tubes to fire. They still fired several seconds apart.
The gramaphone is just a fancy old word for a record player. If you're young enough to still not get it, think of it as an old-fashioned CD-player.
