View Single Post
Old 12-30-08, 09:59 PM   #817
McHub532
Seasoned Skipper
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Arizona
Posts: 665
Downloads: 104
Uploads: 0
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by tater
In RL, the mk14s pretty much all ran ~11 feet deep until corrected. It was not a sometimes flaw, it was consistently wrong—but the skippers did not know this, and their doctrine was to set the depth BELOW the keel.

When they calibrated them for depth, they used a dummy warhead—which weighed something like 200lbs LESS than the real one—as a result, it had to be set to over-correct for the lighter warhead, and when the real one was on, it simply always ran deep.
I'm using all Mark 23's in March of 1944.
__________________
Thomas Jefferson - "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

McHub532 is offline   Reply With Quote