Effective use of the Mk27 Cutie

Stealhead · 05-12-11, 10:41 PM

The larger warheads of other torpedoes are better for sinking larger ships because the bigger explosion sets off explosions and starts fires. I bet that flooding alone from a torpedo hit didn't sink many ships - rather it was the resulting fire or explosion that took most of them down.[/QUOTE]

The best way to sink a ship is to over whelm its crews abilities to control the damage suffered so you are right on this.That is why the general rule was to fire a three or four torpedo spread(more for a very large ship or capital ship) at various sections of ship the more spread out the damage the better the odds that the crew will be unable to maintain effective damage control and down she goes.Even a smaller tonnage ship has(talking real life WWII here) a good chance to survive a single torpedo hit so long as it did not break the ships back though many did go down due to over whelming flooding for sure maybe more than did by explosions alone a ship completely going up in huge explosion was actually pretty rare and was the talk of the town when a sub witnessed/felt it.In fact in WWII the hardest merchant vessel type to sink was any larger sized tanker due to the added bouncy of it load sometimes they took several hits to go down and often the ships that did explode like the Fourth were cargo vessels loaded down with munitions.

At Truk Lagoon in 1944 a Navy aircraft attacked a merchant loaded down with ammo and the resulting explosion was so powerful that it engulfed the attacking plane which was a few thousand feet away and nearly his wing men gives you an idea how hazardous a true surface attack could be.

When they did detailed studies after the war using Japanese data the US Navy found that many ships that appeared to have suffered serious damage and where listed as probables turned out to have made it back to port but in war that is still a loss some what because the ship will be out of service for a time being repaired.I am sure a few Japanese merchants that got hit by duds(in real life these would have penetrated the hull sometimes) that where patched up only to be sunk later by one that did work and others that survived solid torpedo hits only to go down a few months or years later.

The same can be said for the US Navy we had outstanding damage control crews on our ships and that saved us on more than one occasion like at Midway.

By the way Anthony if you are lookng for the most accurate ship damage/sinking simulation then you may want to give Real Fleet Boat a spin it is different in several respects from TMO but is just as good a super mod in its own way.

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The larger warheads of other torpedoes are better for sinking larger ships because the bigger explosion sets off explosions and starts fires. I bet that flooding alone from a torpedo hit didn't sink many ships - rather it was the resulting fire or explosion that took most of them down.[/QUOTE] The best way to sink a ship is to over whelm its crews abilities to control the damage suffered so you are right on this.That is why the general rule was to fire a three or four torpedo spread(more for a very large ship or capital ship) at various sections of ship the more spread out the damage the better the odds that the crew will be unable to maintain effective damage control and down she goes.Even a smaller tonnage ship has(talking real life WWII here) a good chance to survive a single torpedo hit so long as it did not break the ships back though many did go down due to over whelming flooding for sure maybe more than did by explosions alone a ship completely going up in huge explosion was actually pretty rare and was the talk of the town when a sub witnessed/felt it.In fact in WWII the hardest merchant vessel type to sink was any larger sized tanker due to the added bouncy of it load sometimes they took several hits to go down and often the ships that did explode like the Fourth were cargo vessels loaded down with munitions. At Truk Lagoon in 1944 a Navy aircraft attacked a merchant loaded down with ammo and the resulting explosion was so powerful that it engulfed the attacking plane which was a few thousand feet away and nearly his wing men gives you an idea how hazardous a true surface attack could be. When they did detailed studies after the war using Japanese data the US Navy found that many ships that appeared to have suffered serious damage and where listed as probables turned out to have made it back to port but in war that is still a loss some what because the ship will be out of service for a time being repaired.I am sure a few Japanese merchants that got hit by duds(in real life these would have penetrated the hull sometimes) that where patched up only to be sunk later by one that did work and others that survived solid torpedo hits only to go down a few months or years later. The same can be said for the US Navy we had outstanding damage control crews on our ships and that saved us on more than one occasion like at Midway. By the way Anthony if you are lookng for the most accurate ship damage/sinking simulation then you may want to give Real Fleet Boat a spin it is different in several respects from TMO but is just as good a super mod in its own way. Last edited by Stealhead; 05-12-11 at 10:57 PM.