[Sailor Steve]

I completely agree it's totally bogus for target ships to avoid torpedoes by stopping and starting, accelerating and decelerating; especially clunky underpowered merchants. In fact, that was also a subject of discussion more than once; all the ships in SH3 accelerate too fast.

But no, the 'Salvo' firing, as I said, is done in a sequence, separated by several seconds. Torpedoes leaving the tubes at the same time have a chance of hitting each other or magnetically setting each other off.