Historical Question - Bow doors

Takao · 03-27-07, 08:00 PM

Red Scorpion: The War Patrols of the USS Rasher, also makes note of a US submarine firing a spread of torps, opening the outer doors of all tubes that are to be used.

Now the submarine is maneuvered to fire a spread of three torpedoes by the bow tubes on a 90-degree track. The big transport is approaching, broadside on. The skipper makes his final shooting observation. "Open outer doors on One, Two, and Three! Stand by forward! Stand by One!" The periscope crosshairs are on the target's big, black stack.

Torpedo firing intervals were usually between 8 and 10 seconds. So, its my guess that the developers figure we can click tube 1, hit Q, fire tube 1, click tube 2, hit Q, etc.

03-27-07, 08:00 PM	#8
Takao Officer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Reading, PA Posts: 244 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Red Scorpion: The War Patrols of the USS Rasher, also makes note of a US submarine firing a spread of torps, opening the outer doors of all tubes that are to be used. Now the submarine is maneuvered to fire a spread of three torpedoes by the bow tubes on a 90-degree track. The big transport is approaching, broadside on. The skipper makes his final shooting observation. "Open outer doors on One, Two, and Three! Stand by forward! Stand by One!" The periscope crosshairs are on the target's big, black stack. Torpedo firing intervals were usually between 8 and 10 seconds. So, its my guess that the developers figure we can click tube 1, hit Q, fire tube 1, click tube 2, hit Q, etc.