RangerJoe
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Joined: 11/16/2015 From: My Mother, although my Father had some small part. Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Ian R You see, sir, the boffins set them to run under the target, and gave them these magnetic field detonators that go off when they are underneath. They reckon that's better than hitting the hull. Yeah right! Don't worry, we've reset the depth setting so you'll get hull hits, and (don't tell the admirals) we've disconnected the magnetic thingee so the torpedo won't explode until it connects. Imagine that,some idjit suggesting that if you organised the torpedo to go off directly under the ship it would break it's back and chop it in half. Bloody college kids. It's not like it's the 1980s or something. The actual theory was and is still sound, the breaking of the keel. If you look at the damage that ships took when the wall of water from a torpedo explosion went up into the hull . . . That is what happened to the Prince of Wales. But in practice, the Earth's magnetic waves were more horizontal than vertical in the Western Pacific unlike at the East Coast of the United States so that is why there were the premature detonations.
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