parameters for an effective torpedo drop

[trey]

will it be the "200 200" rule? Ya know in wb'S a good rule was under 200 feet AGL, and under 200 IAS and the torp was off to a good start. Anything more and the torp was liable to explode on contact with the surface. Just curious if anyone has read, heard, etc....

thx ammo

[Nefarious]

Im droppin mine under 100 feet...

this way my avenger would be harder to pick off from the boats and from prowling bad guys..

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[This message has been edited by Nefarious (edited 12-23-2000).]

[flakbait]

In WBs I used the "150-50" rule; 150mph and 50 feet off the deck. Sometimes I'd get down around 20 feet just for the fun of it. How'd I do that without crashing? Hours spent going NOE with an Me-262. At 500mph you don't have much time to react when less than 50 feet up. Even now I practice NOE in anything just to keep my skill up. Lets you get real close to the water in a torp drop without taking a bath. If you want to bone up on NOE, take a Tiffe NOE flying; 350mph is plenty fast for practice. Use the exterior view "F4" to get a rough idea of your height. Once you get used to doing that offline and outside the plane, try it from inside the plane. If your system can hack it, use the Hi-res texture patch. Lets you see more detail and gives you a little better depth perception.


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[SKurj]

Think in RL..

The US torps had to be dropped from less than 150 ft at less than 150 knots didn't they?

Where as the japanese torp was droppable from up to 200 ft and possibly 200 knots as well...

I am guessin tryin to remember the numbers from my old AoP days..

AKskurj

[skernsk]

Well I'm gonna drink a gallon of rye to get enough COURAGE to approach the enemy fleet...see Hitech's post.

By then I'll be so drunk that an inverted torpedo drop may seem possible.  And after I miss with my torpedo I will make a high G turn and aim for the nearest Flattop  

[Tony Williams]

What about distance from the target?  In the 1920s the Royal Navy did lots of air-dropping tests with the following results:

1,250 yards distance: hit probability 10%
1,000 yards: 30%
750 yards: 50%
600 yards: 85%

Such attacks were a bit hazardous.  In WW2 the length of a tour of duty (30 missions for bombers) was rated at just 3 (three!) missions for torpedo attacks.  I don't know if anybody calculated the probability of scoring a hit against that of being killed, but I'd rather be on the ship....

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