Install Steam
login
|
language
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
ไทย (Thai)
Български (Bulgarian)
Čeština (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Deutsch (German)
Español - España (Spanish - Spain)
Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
Magyar (Hungarian)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Português (Portuguese - Portugal)
Português - Brasil (Portuguese - Brazil)
Română (Romanian)
Русский (Russian)
Suomi (Finnish)
Svenska (Swedish)
Türkçe (Turkish)
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Українська (Ukrainian)
Report a translation problem
However if their torpedoes were functional, they would have sunk a battleship, a destroyer squadron and the entire fleet of troop transports. Instead, they were 100% duds.
In fact, Churchhill himself was on a warship that was struck twice by uboat torpedoes - but he never was aware of it because they failed to detonate at all.
military ships tends to have a very shallow draft, especially the Uboats nemesis, the destroyer. For most of the war, the torpedoes all ran deeper than the setting and could run no shallower than 3 meters or so.
Also, at this time, the magnetic detonators were too unreliable to be used at all - they were forbidden. So there was simply no weapon that the uboats had that would work against destroyers.
Uboats were encouraged to attack warships, just their reliance on stealth was totally hobbled by their torpedoes which would run off course and detonate at random spots, giving them away before they were able to do any damage.