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Post by con20or on May 9, 2005 14:30:47 GMT
A secret Nazi impaling device?  Do your boats have one? |
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BlitzPig_Rivet
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Post by BlitzPig_Rivet on May 9, 2005 15:39:09 GMT
You are quite right. It is a form of impaling device. However, this device only becomes available on upgrading to a type VIIC boat or later. It is known as a paper spike and was very handy for keeping those old radio messages close by for reference, and also for all the invoices from BDU for your spare parts, torpedoes, deck and flack gun ammunition etc. ;D It was not a very popular upgrade as it could only be used in a flat calm, (a bit like the deck gun) otherwise the papers would get soaked by the spray and the ink would run making them illegible. In severe cases the papers would be torn from the spike altogether and be whisked away in the gales. I offer this image to bear out my explanation.  |
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Post by con20or on May 9, 2005 16:31:12 GMT
it would be easy to use that spike in force 8 winds. this game sucks!!ts so unrealistic!! ;D
Great image by the way.
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Post by BlitzPig_Rivet on May 9, 2005 17:05:16 GMT
Thx con20or. I couldn't resist  . I have no idea what it really is though. I wouldn't mind knowing either, now that you've made me curious ;D. |
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Post by con20or on May 9, 2005 17:12:40 GMT
could it be the radio antenna?surely they would put that higher though. it seems to be part of that metal handle underneath it. Its not part of the biscay cross is it? and it shows up like that before its invented? A bit like the hydrophone station having a "sende" label,but no button(since 1.1 or was it 1.2?)?
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Post by Lane on May 9, 2005 18:40:45 GMT
I though it was a Radio Antenna ?
Don't see any other things that look like a antenna?
Like you said I don't remmber if it was there before
patch or on the V11B boat? That's the only two
boats I have had on patrol V11b and V11C
Lane ;D
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Post by dagamecat on May 9, 2005 18:55:11 GMT
OK I've looked it up in my book about type-VII u-boats. It's indeed a retractable rod antenna (albeit not modelled to well).
The primary means of communicating back and forth was via short wave transmissions (3-30MHz), which were recieved by the rod antenna, supplanted by the large antenna cables which run fore and aft from the tower.
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Post by BlitzPig_Rivet on May 9, 2005 19:18:33 GMT
A radio antenna would make sense of course. So it's not a paper spike then? ;D
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Post by con20or on May 9, 2005 19:21:05 GMT
cool. glad its not a glitch. that book sounds pretty handy. i have a book on type VII's somewhere too.id forgotten about it until now.
I love Uboats:)
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