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Torpedo aircraft attacking from Ahead or Astern - 1/6/2010 2:17:18 AM

Miller

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Do they ever get a hit? I know the chances should be greatly reduced, but I cannot recall ever seeing a hit when launched from these directions, even against slow transports.

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RE: Torpedo aircraft attacking from Ahead or Astern - 1/6/2010 3:39:26 AM

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wow, twice in a week folks asked this, they launch as ships turn to negate the turn, although agaisnt slow merchies I think it is an in game redundancy but a real life tactic used against faster naval vesels.. think a torpedo goes just a littel faster than its target, so if you do not want your enemy to simply turn towrd your torps causing them to mis you do front and sides

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RE: Torpedo aircraft attacking from Ahead or Astern - 1/6/2010 3:58:40 AM

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I would imagine anyone in command of a vessel in a potential combat zone has burned into their skulls mucho contours of equal probability.

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RE: Torpedo aircraft attacking from Ahead or Astern - 1/6/2010 5:42:14 PM

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The historical tactic was to approach from ahead, but to drop from ahead and to the side of the target. Approaching from roughly ahead should reduce the the anti-aircraft fire and time to close in. Then the planes should split and attack from both sides

A nice picture from here:
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/navalwar/torpedo.htm

Shows the problem this presents to the ship: