[ARC5] Torpedos....

[J. Forster]

The Navy has been around a looong time and has a lot of traditions. It
takes a long time to design and build a battleship, after all.

Tradition dies hard. I had a (very nice) lunch at the Navy Officer's Mess
at Moffet Field in the late 1960s. But, if you looked at the silver,
glassware, crockery, waiters, and roast beef laden trollies, I'd have
expected Queen Victoria was comingt to lunch. Maybe even Henry VIII.

At the beginning of WWII, they were very well equipped to win WWI. It took
the shock of Pearl Harbor to demonstrate what rapidly changing technology
can do.

And, this lesson is lost on many.

Just look at Saddam in Desert Storm. He was very well positioned to make a
bloodbath out of any invasion. But the US just blinded him, did an end
run, and hopped over his entrenched defenses...  just like Hitler with the
Majinault Line in WWII.

Finally, weapons systems MUST be tested. Period.

YMMV,

-John

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> On 2 Jul 2013 at 14:04, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>
>> But on the other hand,  it was amazing how fast a team of scientists -
>> many of them right out of school - and combined with US industry -
>> came up with a war winner of a weapon, the air dropped acoustic homing
>> torpedo, to attack U-boats. It sank a sub on its very first combat use
>> - which occurred while the USN was still bickering internally over the
>> RI factory's faults.  And then they went on to fix the RI factory
>> weapons and design new superior ones.
>
> Yes. But in the meantime, our men died and opportunities were lost. I
> agree
> with you: the entire RI delegation should have been tried for
> treason...and
> everyone connected with them too.
>
> What a total scandal. It was disgusting. And similar things are happening
> today...of course.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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