Comments by "GWTPict GWTPict" (@gwtpictgwtpict4214) on "Drachinifel"
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@michaelblaszkiewicz7283 I understand that your original post was a joke, if a little weak. I just thought I'd stand up up for the poor old Swordfish, after all it was, by its service record, a very effective and versatile aircraft. You then suggested the Devastator would have performed better and that the Swordfish was just "lucky". I disagreed. Then you brought Midway into it(WTF?) I pointed out that the torpedo bombers present didn't perform any better than the Swordfish would have.
To your final post, was the Avenger a better aircraft? Yes. But then you spoil it all by insisting that calling the Swordfish a a strike aircraft was a joke. Look at its service record Michael, the Swordfish may have been many things, old, slow, freezing cold to fly and vulnerable to fighters but it killed ships up to battleship size, sank multiple U-boats, served as a gunnery spotter, defended Atlantic convoys in weather in which no other serving aircraft could fly, the list could go on. Face it Michael, the poor old stringbag was not a joke.
Oh, and regarding canvas, one advantage was that it didn't detonate 20mm cannon shells, they just went straight through, left a hole that was easy to repair. Regarding wood, look at the de Havilland Mosquito.
Anyway, I'm off to bed now, night night :-)
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@HK417A1 Any weapon design is a compromise, in a torpedo you want range, speed and explosive bang. However, you also have to design your torpedo to fit your launch system and that will limit its dimensions including weight. So your design spec will say 21" torpedo, maximum length so much, maximum weight so much. Those are your design parameters into which you have to fit the required range, speed and explosive goodness. The explosive weight tells you how much weight is left over for propulsion, fuel, guidance systems etc. So warhead weight is a relevant parameter. You can consider TNT as a baseline explosive as it was so commonly used in WWII torpedoes, however you have to allow for the other explosives used hence Drach gives warhead weight and then TNT equivalent. Torpex is the easiest example, your Mk1 torpedo is rocking a chunky 600lb TNT warhead. Your Mk1* replaces TNT with Torpex and without changing anything else you now have effectively a 900lb TNT warhead but without the weight penalty.
Remember, at the end of the day Drach is an engineer, this stuff matters to him :-)
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