Gyroangle Insight

[banryu79]

Originally Posted by TorpX

You (and others) are confusing the gyro angle and the torpedo track angle. The TTa might be important with regards to the torpedo exploder reliability (or lack thereof), but the gyro angle would not.
No doubt the exploder issues lowered the overall percentages, though.

Take a glance at Aktungbby's diagram.

The gyro angle shown is, let's call it 40 degrees. The Torpedo Track angle is about 100 deg. You can easily have a large gyro and a near "perfect", 90 deg. TTa, or a zero gyro angle and a poor TTa.

In SH (3 or 4, it doesn't matter), people tend to favor 'canned' approaches because they think their hit probabilities are better, and because the game allows this. In real-life, unpredictable target zigs often forced skippers to use larger gyro angles, or pass up the opportunity.

Thank you for the explanation, sir!

Obviuosly I was wrong, I have make confusion about concepts because I didn't take enough time to read and understand properly the diagram that Aktungbby has posted.

Now I fully understand that quote from Roscoe's US Submarine Operations you cited, and it make sense to me too. Yes, after all geometry is geometry, thank you again.