![]() While Keyport was being built the Newport and Alexandria factories with 3000 workers went to 3 shifts operating 7 days a week 24 hours a day. Production facilities were expanded to include three Navy factories in Newport Rhode Island, Keyport Washington and Alexandria Virginia. The weapons had a complicated design incorporating propulsion, a gyroscope and a magnetic detonator. In the fall of 1941 it was determined that the Navy would need to produce 50 torpedos per day to wage an effective war campaign in the Pacific. submarine fleet had also become better suited for longer patrols than the Germans or Japanese due to amenities such as air conditioning (which German U-boats lacked) and water distilleries. Navy built large submarines with relatively fast cruise speeds, long range capabilities and heavy armaments of torpedos and deck guns. It was used to determine torpedo launch angles on moving ships and would prove to be a lethal advantage.ĭuring this time the U.S. The Torpedo Data Computer, or TDC, was a top secret device developed before the war. By 1938 submarine design and technology had advanced to including one of the first computers ever made. During the 1930’s torpedo fire control, which involved the tracking of ships, aiming the boat, determining launch angles and distance calculations, were all done by looking through the periscope and guesstimating range and speed. to expand its fleet of Naval ships, including submarines, in the Pacific. By the 1930’s Japanese aggressions in Asia after WWI spurned the U.S. ![]()
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