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At random: "I don't know why they call it 'eternal patrol', rather than 'eternal rest camp'? I was never afraid in rest camp.” -- Howard "Shorty" Evans - USS Queenfish SS 393

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Ric

Posted 2009-09-13 12:33 PM (#30685)

Plankowner

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Subject: Anyone ever hear of this happening?

Has a boat ever gone out with a full load of nothing but exercise fish and seen how long it takes to fire them all off. Kind of like fanning the hammer on a pistol. How long to empty the room?

steamboat

Posted 2009-09-13 1:11 PM (#30686 - in reply to #30685)

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Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: Anyone ever hear of this happening?

I can't believe that would be possible unless you had someone else do the retrieving. It took us all day to fire, retrieve and make ready one Mk 14-3A!
I can't imagine doing an aproach, firing solution and firing at 24 targets.... even if you fired 2 or 3 at each one, that would still be nearly impossible unless you were in the middle of a convoy that had no sonar.
It would be fun though!!
Steamboat (TM2SS) sends

TSpoon

Posted 2009-09-13 1:27 PM (#30687 - in reply to #30685)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 561

Subject: RE: Anyone ever hear of this happening?

Sounds like either a Torpedoman's dream or nightmare. Fire 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 hey hurry up and reload.....

T.spoon, DBF

Blue from West Oz

Posted 2009-09-13 3:09 PM (#30691 - in reply to #30685)

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Subject: RE: Anyone ever hear of this happening?

Fairly sure we used do do this at the start of my career in Boats back in '80. We back then had the MK 8 Torpedo. I have vague recollections of embarking a full load of fish and heading out to fire them for trials. Two years later I was to do MK48 trials in Hawaii onboard HMAS OTWAY and I never played with the MK 8 again.

Ric

Posted 2009-09-13 4:20 PM (#30696 - in reply to #30685)

Plankowner

Posts: 9165

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: RE: Anyone ever hear of this happening?

Damn... !!! loved it... too funny!

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