He described various kinds of incendiary arrows and lances, and illustrated what has been supposed to be a torpedo, which al-Rammah called "the egg which moves itself and burns", with the text suggesting that it was intended to move on the surface of water. The earliest description is found in the works of Syrian engineer Hassan al-Rammah in 1275. The concept of a torpedo existed many centuries before it was developed as a working device. In naval usage, the American Robert Fulton introduced the name to refer to a towed gunpowder charge used by his French submarine Nautilus to demonstrate that it could sink warships. The word torpedo comes from a genus of electric rays in the order Torpediniformes, which in turn comes from the Latin "torpere" (to be stiff or numb). 2.4 Twentieth century and the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.They can be launched from a variety of platforms. Today's torpedoes can be divided into lightweight and heavyweight classes and into straight-running, autonomous homers, and wire-guided. While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, even ordinary fishing boats or frogmen, and later, aircraft, to destroy large armoured ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire. The original torpedo is a kind of fish: an electric ray.
From about 1900, torpedo has been used strictly to designate an underwater self-propelled weapon.
The term torpedo was originally employed for a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. Historically, it was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive or fish torpedo colloquially called a fish. The modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it. Launching a torpedo in 1915 during World War I For other uses, see Torpedo (disambiguation). For the pre-1900 naval meaning of "torpedo", see naval mine. If you leave it locked while firing you are more likely to miss.This article is about the self-propelled weapon. Leaving them at default is okay until you feel like experimenting at a later time.Īssuming you have preceeded all of these steps by properly positioning your boat to an optimal ambush position, wait until your target's little triangular indicator turns green and then hit the Spacebar again to unlock the target just before hitting the Fire button. Leave that there until shortly before you fire.Īdjust your torpedo options: running depth, trigger, speed, etc to whatever you want. You will see the little red, yellow, or green indicator under the target. When I first load a mission, I usually go straight to a periscope to set this up and get it out of the way so I don't have to worry about it later.
Click on "Never Mind" to make the commands go away. You will have to do this only once for each time you load a mission. One of them is "Turn Off TDC." Click on this.
SILENT HUNTER 5 TORPEDO GUIDE MANUAL
When in manual and locking on a target, you will get a little set of commands for the XO.
You can be in manual and still use what is basically an automatic system (the way it should be). That three-dot system for automatic firing is pure bullsh!t.
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