[REL] Air Torpedos/Torpedo Bombers revisited and working!

[Wreford-Brown]

Originally Posted by Rubini

Hi mate,

The first info that we need is what planes (that we have on sh3/super mods) that crried torpedos attacks on WWII historically. Also the number of torpedos carried (1 or 2). After that is easy to mount the airplanes and then you can script then on SM or even in campaign SCR. Can you look on this?

u.boat.net has some information:

• The first successful attack by Fido armed aircraft was 14 May 1943, so we can probably assume that the torpedo came into operational service around 1 May.
• Inital search depth was 15m, but this was increased to 45m later in the war (no dates available)
• The torpedo only made 12 kts for about 10 mins (total range around 3700m). U-boats could outrun on surface, but not submerged.
• Torpedoes were designed to be carried in place of a 1000lb bomb, so any aircraft capable of carrying 1000lb bomb could carry Fido. There are two assumptions we could make from this:
  • Aircraft carried Fido in place of all 1000lb bombs
  • Aircraft capable of carrying more than one 1000lb bomb would carry one Fido and normal DCs/bombs on the other racks in order to multiply their chances of engaging different targets
  • I personally prefer the second one, but it's your mod!
• Fido sank 37 submarines during the course of the war (31 German and 6 Japanese), damaged 18 (15 German, 3 Japanese) and was approx 22% effective (compared to 9% for depth charges).
• Fido was carried by Catalina and Liberator plus 'most US Navy squadrons flying from escort carriers'.

I'm happy to help with scripting if I can...