Time Bomb? Strange GWX event - Page 2

madmike81 · 11-01-07, 08:32 PM

Ive actually watched one of my torps hit the prop of a target vessel...get knocked backwards...accelerate again and hit the ship.

Gotta love wild shots.

KeptinCranky · 11-02-07, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by UnterseeBoogeyMan

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Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

Not until he fits his boat with a deflector dish and heisenberg compensators anyway

which makes me wonder, where if you get right down to it, on a U-boat are the jefferies tubes?

Picture is a bit small but I get the gist of it...

Oh Gods!!!

:rotfl:

NiclDoe · 11-02-07, 07:02 AM

The cuase for the weirdness is most likely Bernard just swam to the tanker and pressed the self destruct button and came back on to the bridge like nothing happened.

GreyBeard · 11-02-07, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by madmike81

Ive actually watched one of my torps hit the prop of a target vessel...get knocked backwards...accelerate again and hit the ship.

Gotta love wild shots.

Same thing happened to me. First

and then

. Go figure. :hmm:

GoldenRivet · 11-02-07, 12:33 PM

I have seen it hit the prop and get knocked backwards too... but it did this about 3 or 4 times.

as the ship turned the torpedo was able to hit something besides the prop and it finally detonated, i have a feeling this is what heppened to Balz.

3 or 4 or 5 prop impacts followed by a good detonation would have easily added anywhere from 20 to 40 seconds to the "torpedo travel time" depending on how many times it was knocked back

Tsavo · 11-02-07, 05:16 PM

Must to remember!
Philidelphia Experiment by U.S.?
Perhaps affects torpedos?
:rotfl:

CapZap1970 · 11-02-07, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Brag

Lt. Otto Kalb writes:

I'm not going to mention the events that led Captain Balz to nearly go beserk and led us to follow a tanker in fog and rain.

We maintained station 300 meters behind the tanker, barelly seeing it's stern in the fading light. Balz leaned on the bulwarks mumbling, "I'm going to hoochie your woochie, you bastard."

Finally he gave the order to fire one magnetic.

The torpedo ran true. But time elapsed and nothing happened.

"No, boom-boom, no boom-boom," Balz mumbled and buried his face in his arms.

This was the third torpedo we launched against the tanker without positive results.

"Shall we sing the hoochie-woochie song?" Bernard asked.
"Get off my bridge, you swine," Balz shouted back.

I took another look at the zizagging tanker, knowing that in a few minutes we would lose him in the darkness. I wasn't about to suggest to launch another torpedo and lit my pipe.

An explosion racked the tanker. I looked at my watch, it couldn't possibly be our torpedo.
The monster sank.

My only possible explanation is that the torpedo got tangle up with something on the ship and stayed underneath until the self-destruct activated.

Stranger than GWX?

Anyway, I am glad you were able to sing the hoochie-woochie, Kpt. Balz.
Again, Consuela will be more than glad to have us back in her "bar".
It's good to be back, you know?

CapZap

11-01-07, 08:32 PM	#16
madmike81 Sparky Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Johnson City TN Posts: 155 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ive actually watched one of my torps hit the prop of a target vessel...get knocked backwards...accelerate again and hit the ship. Gotta love wild shots. __________________ "We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."

11-02-07, 07:02 AM	#18
NiclDoe Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the Air or hiding from Black Swans Posts: 760 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	The cuase for the weirdness is most likely Bernard just swam to the tanker and pressed the self destruct button and came back on to the bridge like nothing happened. __________________ The Crazy Wolf

11-02-07, 12:33 PM	#20
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	I have seen it hit the prop and get knocked backwards too... but it did this about 3 or 4 times. as the ship turned the torpedo was able to hit something besides the prop and it finally detonated, i have a feeling this is what heppened to Balz. 3 or 4 or 5 prop impacts followed by a good detonation would have easily added anywhere from 20 to 40 seconds to the "torpedo travel time" depending on how many times it was knocked back __________________

11-02-07, 05:16 PM	#21
Tsavo Seaman Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 42 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Must to remember! Philidelphia Experiment by U.S.? Perhaps affects torpedos? :rotfl: