RUb Depth Charges - a strange incident.

Kissaki · 10-25-05, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Beery

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Originally Posted by Kissaki

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Originally Posted by Beery

My point was simply that without any means of giving the sub positive buoyancy it would sink. submerged U-boats, if they are without ballast, are heavier than the water around them.

If they are without ballast? Without compressed air, you mean? Because you can't get a sub lighter than having no ballast - and I've been able to surface without blowing ballast tanks and with no propulsion.

Yeah, without compressed air is what I mean. You can surface without blowing ballast and without propulsion. As I understand it, it's a very annoying flaw in the simulation.

The only way I can make sense of this is if the ballast tanks are only "buoyantly" full, and not empty - and with no compressed air to push more water out. The presence of compressed air itself shouldn't do anything for buoyancy, because unless it has negative weight (which it doesn't) it doesn't make the boat lighter. And the uboat displaces the same ammount of water regardless.