LUT or FAT?

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Originally Posted by Snestorm

Can anybody shed some light on what factors qualify a boat as a "LUT boat" or "Non LUT boat"?

This is an interesting question and I tried to find some info on the differences of "FAT boats" and "LUT boats". I couldn't find anything on the internet. However I found a mention that FAT and LUT torpedoes are discussed in a book about German torpedoes:

http://www.amazon.de/Torpedos-deutsc.../dp/3813208427

Maybe this book could help. It is in German though (it's only 9,95 euroes, I'm thinking about buying it myself, though my skills in German are pretty meager). My guess is that there was not enough LUT torpedoes for every boat and that they gave LUT torpedoes to boats that they wanted to have extra maneuverability in their attack approaches.