Aircraft Torpedo | Royal Air Force instructional film (1942)
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2023
- This training and technical instruction film was made in 1942 by the Royal Air Force for the Coastal Command. It details the workings of the Mark XII 18-inch air-launched torpedo - the same torpedo used against the Bismark, the Vittorio Veneto at the Battle of Matapan, and the harbour of Taranto.
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Fascinating. I never realised they actually had an engine inside! I thought it was all driven by compressed air. Wow! That control system is well ingenious.
Although torpedos weren't on the curriculum, we still had old weapons training films very similar to this at Halton in the seventies. Just goes to show, how few of the "basics" had changed by then.
Also shows how weapons evolve, where the old is the basics of the new, with a few tweaks made, making it a new mark.
Fascinating engineering. If it works as designed, every single assembly is purposefully destroyed. Keen craftsmanship.
WOW! I always thought torpedoes were quite simple things. Now I know that they're not! Very interesting, thanks! 🙂
The narrator sounds very much like John Betjeman. What an amazing film. Thanks for posting.
😂 Brilliant.
Fascinating detail
Very informative. It really gives a simplified easy to digest understanding of how a torpedo operates.
Interesting to note the difference between British training videos and US. Although im guessing this film was designed for a much more advanced group of crewmen and officers, not basic recruits.
Unmistakeable tones of John Betjeman as the narrator, even if he wasn't given a credit at the end.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Cracking channel, thanks again Sir 👍
Quite complicated ...
Isn't it tho, more engineering included than what was in my first car! 😂
Elegant simplicity of mechanism. Did they actually work as advertised? It was found that exploding under the keel by means of magnetometer type fuses was better at breaking ships backs than hitting them in their armoured portions.
Magnetic fuses were problematic in that era. Before WW2 ended, they had figured out that contact fuses were more reliable. Drachinifel talks about that issue, and others, in his video on the American Mark XIV torpedo.
Also magnet fuses allowed for simpler depth settings, compared to contact fuses. Contact fuses required depth settings to make sure torpedo hit the hull on shallow draught hulls, and below the possible armour plate on deeper hulls. Where as magnet fuses could pass below both hulls and be set off without needing depth settings set to target's hull type.
They went back to contact fuses for the second attempt at the Bismark
@@Peorhum I think magnetic fuses were always backed up with a built-in contact fuse. That way if the torpedo ran too shallow you had a backup. For all I know that may still be the case.
@@crazypetec-130fe7 I read an account of how that saga played out in the early years of the war in the book blind man’s bluff. Stunning hubris!
My father worked at the Glasgow naval shipyard yard labs during the war on underwater explosions and degaussing. The technology was indeed complex and difficult.
Thanks for the upload, fascinating. Does the torpedo depth get set during flight or is it fixed before take off ?
Looks like before takeoff with this model
@@ArmouredCarriers Then the pilot must already know what specific vessel he is targeting before take off with regards to the draft of the ship or sub?
@@waynesimpson2074 Sort of. I think it is determined by weight category. So a "capital ship" draft probably embrace battleships, battecruisers and carriers. Likewise, a setting for merchant ships would probably also encompass destroyers and cruisers.
@@ArmouredCarriers Great, thank you. You've pretty much confirmed my thinking on the demise of u331. The Albacore crew must have set their eel shallow to strike a small u boat target.
Drinking game. Take a shot every time he says set depth...
Fajny film