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How far can a submarine fire a torpedo?
This new 1.2-ton torpedo can hit a target 31 miles away. It can cruise as deep at 1,640 feet beneath the surface, or as shallow as 50. The heavyweight torpedoes launched by submarines are secret, unseen, mysterious.
Can ships fire torpedoes?
Many classes of surface ships, submarines, and aircraft were armed with torpedoes. Naval strategy at the time was to use torpedoes, launched from submarines or warships, against enemy warships in a fleet action on the high seas.
What are ship weapons and how do they work?
Ship Weapons are weapons mounted on ships (guns, missiles, torpedoes, etc.) that can be used for Player-Versus-Player (PvP) combat. To use these weapons, you must have PvP enabled in the game settings and have a ship with weapons.
What happens when a projectile is fired from a ship?
However, the blast of the propellent gases escaping from the barrel when the projectile left became a shock wave that impacted the structure of the ship, creating massive vibration and sometimes ripping up deck planking, fracturing steel fittings and even causing hull plates to flex and shear off the rivets that held them together.
What happens if my ship runs out of ammunition?
If you run out of ammunition or damage your ship you must go to a shipyard located on the map to rearm and/or repair your ship. Respawning your ship will not refill the ammunition stores, although it will repair your ship. Countermeasures (chaff, noisemakers, etc) are restocked when respawning your ship.
Did battleships ever fire full broadsides?
Will Denham, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. BATTLESHIPS have fired full broadsides on a number of occasions, as one of your correspondents noted, although the other correspondent who believed he had seen a ship move six feet sideways on film is certainly mistaken.