Timeline for What German torpedo problem was discovered in 1942?
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| Apr 28, 2022 at 7:39 | comment | added | DevSolar | @MichaelKay: Dönitz volunteered to the all-new submarine arm as a First Lieutenant in 1916. After the first World War he was commander of several torpedo boats, after which he transferred to the Marine Inspection for Torpedoes and Mines for close to two years before moving on in his career. You could say he knew his way around torpedo technology. And when your staff is "puzzling" about the bad performance of the primary weapon of your primary weapon system (which you happen to know a thing or two about), it's not so surprising that he would take an interest. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 15:13 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Fascinating that Dönitz should get personally involved with resolving a detailed technical issue like this. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 12:38 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | And in both cases it was down to the departments responsible for torpedo design being incompetent by signing off on fatally flawed designs with inadequate testing, ignoring reports from captains that the torpedoes were faulty, and only actually fixing the damn things when the problem escalated to crisis levels and senior navy officials became aware of it. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 20:54 | comment | added | BobT | You shouldn't be surprised. It took the US Navy many months after the outbreak of WW2 to figure out why their torpedoes weren't detonating after impact as well as depth issues and tracking problems | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 18:59 | comment | added | totalMongot | Thanks this is very consistent with what I read in the book. I wait a few days and I'll accept the answer By the way, very surprised they took so long to find the problem | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 18:45 | history | answered | ed.hank | CC BY-SA 4.0 |