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sapienza · 05-03-2002, 12:01 PM

Since radar and sonar weren't used back in WWI to guide torpedoes to their targets, sub skippers had to be able to gauge ship speed and bearing and then lead the shot so that the torpedo would hit where the ship would be 30 seconds, 2 minutes later. Whenever.

The crazy camo distorted the sub skipper's perception of their movement. It was much harder to tell which direction (no, really) the ship was moving, what speed it was moving at, where the front of the ship was, etc. So it made it less likely that the torpedoes' proper trajectories could be estimated.

Plus, it was practically the jazz age and all that military gunmetal grey was just soooooo 19th century.

sapienza

05-03-2002, 12:01 PM	#16
sapienza Resident Denizen Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 61	Since radar and sonar weren't used back in WWI to guide torpedoes to their targets, sub skippers had to be able to gauge ship speed and bearing and then lead the shot so that the torpedo would hit where the ship would be 30 seconds, 2 minutes later. Whenever. The crazy camo distorted the sub skipper's perception of their movement. It was much harder to tell which direction (no, really) the ship was moving, what speed it was moving at, where the front of the ship was, etc. So it made it less likely that the torpedoes' proper trajectories could be estimated. Plus, it was practically the jazz age and all that military gunmetal grey was just soooooo 19th century. sapienza

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