Pearl Harbor Defense

Cub Driver wrote:

On 15 Sep 2004 23:25:48 -0700, (Eunometic)
wrote:


The US Navy had fallen well behined in torpedo technology.


It was not just the performance specs, either. The USN torpedoes were
inacurrate, often running so deep that they passed under the enemy
ship. More than one American sub was sunk by its own torpedo. See
www.warbirdforum.com/okane.htm

Dick O'Kane (the subject of that book review) recalled that when word
went back to Washington about the faulty torpedoes, the brass blamed
the sub skippers for their tactics rather than examing the torpedo for
defects.

The problem was with the magnetic fuses. Again, the dimwits in charge
refused to do proper testing. The tests were expensive and the Navy
knew that their white engineers had innate superiority to gooks. This
oversight, along with some strange attack doctrine, extended the war and
cost us some sailors.

On the other hand, the Navy's analog computer (TDC), used for solving
targeting problems, was quite good.

Cheers.

--mike

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In article RCM2d.108318$3l3.12958@attbi_s03,
Mike Dargan wrote:

Cub Driver wrote:

On 15 Sep 2004 23:25:48 -0700, (Eunometic)
wrote:


The US Navy had fallen well behined in torpedo technology.


It was not just the performance specs, either. The USN torpedoes were
inacurrate, often running so deep that they passed under the enemy
ship. More than one American sub was sunk by its own torpedo. See
www.warbirdforum.com/okane.htm

Dick O'Kane (the subject of that book review) recalled that when word
went back to Washington about the faulty torpedoes, the brass blamed
the sub skippers for their tactics rather than examing the torpedo for
defects.

The problem was with the magnetic fuses.

The contact fuses were no better.

In article RCM2d.108318$3l3.12958@attbi_s03,
Mike Dargan writes:
Cub Driver wrote:

On 15 Sep 2004 23:25:48 -0700, (Eunometic)
wrote:
The US Navy had fallen well behined in torpedo technology.
It was not just the performance specs, either. The USN torpedoes were
inacurrate, often running so deep that they passed under the enemy
ship. More than one American sub was sunk by its own torpedo. See
www.warbirdforum.com/okane.htm

Dick O'Kane (the subject of that book review) recalled that when word
went back to Washington about the faulty torpedoes, the brass blamed
the sub skippers for their tactics rather than examing the torpedo for
defects.

The problem was with the magnetic fuses. Again, the dimwits in charge
refused to do proper testing. The tests were expensive and the Navy
knew that their white engineers had innate superiority to gooks. This
oversight, along with some strange attack doctrine, extended the war and
cost us some sailors.

And, thanks to the Germans stealing the design from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard and copying it for the G7 series of torpedos, it helped to win
the Battle of the Atlantic.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

Mike Dargan writes:


The problem was with the magnetic fuses. Again, the dimwits in charge
refused to do proper testing. The tests were expensive and the Navy
knew that their white engineers had innate superiority to gooks.

Sounds just like Star Wars II, going on now.

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