Real World Torpedo question

RSColonel_131st · 03-09-10, 06:01 AM

Hi all

This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but I never got around to ask...

How did actual real world torpedos of WW2 do the unguided aiming? Meaning, the course turn after leaving the tube?

Of course there are steering fins, but how were they controlled? By a timed mechanism, or by gyroscopic angle....? And obviously the required angle of turn could be set after the Torb was loaded in the tube and the tube closed?

It still fascinates me that something so basic did work so well.

03-09-10, 06:01 AM	#1
RSColonel_131st Medic Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 164 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Real World Torpedo question Hi all This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but I never got around to ask... How did actual real world torpedos of WW2 do the unguided aiming? Meaning, the course turn after leaving the tube? Of course there are steering fins, but how were they controlled? By a timed mechanism, or by gyroscopic angle....? And obviously the required angle of turn could be set after the Torb was loaded in the tube and the tube closed? It still fascinates me that something so basic did work so well.

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