Weird torpedo event?

goaticus11 · 08-09-23, 11:22 AM

Hi- so I'm in super heavy fog, can't see my sonar contact. So I run underwater as fast as I can and rats, too slow. So I surface and run at it and sure enough when I can see him I'm like 800 yards directly behind a freighter. So before he sees me, I pop out a torpedo (G7a) set on magnetic, slow. (Figured maybe a stern hit would blow off the screws or whatnot...) I used the free camera to watch it because I am still learning, and the torp goes right on up to the ship and strikes the rudder, or the little pivot guard thing under the rudder, but like RIGHT ON. Then it stops, does not explode, and sinks to the bottom.

Did it fail? Was there not enough hull there to blow? Just how sensitive are those magnetic pistols? Disappointing! Then they shot at me!!

Eventually ran ahead in the fog and got him from side.

Any perspectives? Thanks I love this simulation.

Zosimus · 08-12-23, 11:58 AM

No idea, but I recommend not shooting from behind. Figure out it's course and speed. Then sail around it. A ship going 8 knots will cover 800 meters in 3m14s so in 16m12s he will have covered 4000 meters. If you know his course, you know where he'll be in 16 minutes. Just sail around him and get there first. Then, shoot him from the side. It works much better than from behind or from the front.

Shadowblade · 08-12-23, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Zosimus

No idea, but I recommend not shooting from behind.

If the target is too fast than magnetic from behind is the only way to stop it.

Aktungbby · 08-12-23, 04:53 PM

goaticus!

Zosimus · 08-12-23, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Shadowblade

If the target is too fast than magnetic from behind is the only way to stop it.

Trying to sink the Queen Mary, are we?

Shadowblade · 08-12-23, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Zosimus

Trying to sink the Queen Mary, are we?

more like large fast warships
those are hard to chase...

propbeanie · 08-14-23, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by goaticus11

Hi- so I'm in super heavy fog, can't see my sonar contact. So I run underwater as fast as I can and rats, too slow. So I surface and run at it and sure enough when I can see him I'm like 800 yards directly behind a freighter. So before he sees me, I pop out a torpedo (G7a) set on magnetic, slow. (Figured maybe a stern hit would blow off the screws or whatnot...) I used the free camera to watch it because I am still learning, and the torp goes right on up to the ship and strikes the rudder, or the little pivot guard thing under the rudder, but like RIGHT ON. Then it stops, does not explode, and sinks to the bottom.

Did it fail? Was there not enough hull there to blow? Just how sensitive are those magnetic pistols? Disappointing! Then they shot at me!!

Eventually ran ahead in the fog and got him from side.

Any perspectives? Thanks I love this simulation.

Like most other nations of the world during WWII, the German's had their fair share of torpedo failures, so a "dud" is not out of the ordinary, especially if early in the war and using the magnetic pistols. The US had trouble with the magnetic, as well as impact pistol, in that the firing pin would distort and not go into the detonator.

Aktungbby · 08-14-23, 12:13 PM

Zosimus!

...after a long 'silent run'!

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...in that the firing pin would distort and not go into the detonator.

..at age 72, that is a consistently recurring issue??!

propbeanie · 08-15-23, 07:29 AM

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Zosimus!

...after a long 'silent run'!..at age 72, that is a consistently recurring issue??!

...
..at age 72, that is a consistently recurring issue??!

Or the detonator just going "fizzle" with no "sizzle"...

Aktungbby · 08-15-23, 09:16 AM

...sadly putting 'finis' to the eel's big bang theory!

propbeanie · 08-15-23, 03:49 PM

Oh my... nomination!

KaleunMarco · 08-15-23, 03:59 PM

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Oh my... nomination!

Nomination?

i was going to report all of you and this post for inappropriate comments....over a certain age.

propbeanie · 08-15-23, 04:07 PM

We did do a job on the

...

Aktungbby · 08-15-23, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by goaticus11

Then it stops, does not explode, and sinks to the bottom.

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Originally Posted by Shadowblade

from behind is the only way to stop it.

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Originally Posted by propbeanie

in that the firing pin would distort and not go into the detonator.

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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

Nomination?

i was going to report all of you and this post for inappropriate comments....over a certain age.

WHAA!!? a nomination??...inappropriate comments??...'over a certain age'?? As a long time member of

my semantics and linguistics are are consistantly dead bang on and entirely appropriate within the parameters of this thread's discussion. On a U-boat, a torpedo was affectionately called an 'aal' or 'eel' even as it was called a 'fish' in English ie: "fish in the water"! One US boat was even named the USS Moray- as in eel. Anything above a dud as poor goaticus11's OP describes, would most assuredly result in the 'big bang' of 500 lbs of torpex; no theory about it!

That twisted minds can have misconstrued my straightforward comments to some other darker interpretation of my well considered observation(s) and verisimilitude, is utterly appalling and below the standards of the forum FAQs...particularly regarding elder abuse!

08-09-23, 11:22 AM	#1
goaticus11 Bilge Rat Join Date: Mar 2022 Posts: 1 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Weird torpedo event? Hi- so I'm in super heavy fog, can't see my sonar contact. So I run underwater as fast as I can and rats, too slow. So I surface and run at it and sure enough when I can see him I'm like 800 yards directly behind a freighter. So before he sees me, I pop out a torpedo (G7a) set on magnetic, slow. (Figured maybe a stern hit would blow off the screws or whatnot...) I used the free camera to watch it because I am still learning, and the torp goes right on up to the ship and strikes the rudder, or the little pivot guard thing under the rudder, but like RIGHT ON. Then it stops, does not explode, and sinks to the bottom. Did it fail? Was there not enough hull there to blow? Just how sensitive are those magnetic pistols? Disappointing! Then they shot at me!! Eventually ran ahead in the fog and got him from side. Any perspectives? Thanks I love this simulation.

08-12-23, 04:53 PM	#4
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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,987 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	...sadly putting 'finis' to the eel's big bang theory! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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08-12-23, 11:58 AM	#2
Zosimus XO Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Chorrillos, Lima, Peru Posts: 401 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	No idea, but I recommend not shooting from behind. Figure out it's course and speed. Then sail around it. A ship going 8 knots will cover 800 meters in 3m14s so in 16m12s he will have covered 4000 meters. If you know his course, you know where he'll be in 16 minutes. Just sail around him and get there first. Then, shoot him from the side. It works much better than from behind or from the front.