Stabilized TBT?

Tarnsman · 02-21-09, 11:06 AM

Im getting started in SH4 and was wondering if the torpedo bearing transmitter was stabalized in real life or not? The Uzo in SH3 is stabalized and Im wondering if it is a cheat or not in SH4?

Platapus · 02-21-09, 01:26 PM

It does not appear to be stabilized. In looking at the construction of the Peloruses on Fleet Submarines during WWII I can't see any stabilization mechanism.

I am assuming you mean some automatic mechanical way of stabilizing the TBT.

The TBT was able to tilt. I am sure that an experienced TBT operator could manually compensate to some level for the vertical movement of the submarine platform.

Sailor Steve · 02-21-09, 07:00 PM

The German UZO wasn't stabilized either. Even large ship fire-control systems at the time didn't have that capability. US battleships had what they called the 'Stable Element', which did have a gyroscope, but all it did was make the guns fire 'on the roll', when the ship was flat and level. Smaller ships didn't have anything like that, and especially not submarines.

02-21-09, 11:06 AM	#1
Tarnsman Electrician's Mate Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 134 Downloads: 48 Uploads: 0	Stabilized TBT? Im getting started in SH4 and was wondering if the torpedo bearing transmitter was stabalized in real life or not? The Uzo in SH3 is stabalized and Im wondering if it is a cheat or not in SH4?

02-21-09, 01:26 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	It does not appear to be stabilized. In looking at the construction of the Peloruses on Fleet Submarines during WWII I can't see any stabilization mechanism. I am assuming you mean some automatic mechanical way of stabilizing the TBT. The TBT was able to tilt. I am sure that an experienced TBT operator could manually compensate to some level for the vertical movement of the submarine platform. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

02-21-09, 07:00 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	The German UZO wasn't stabilized either. Even large ship fire-control systems at the time didn't have that capability. US battleships had what they called the 'Stable Element', which did have a gyroscope, but all it did was make the guns fire 'on the roll', when the ship was flat and level. Smaller ships didn't have anything like that, and especially not submarines. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo