The magnetic detonator was sensitive to mechanical oscillations during the torpedo run, and at high latitudes, fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field.
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Most of the 31, 000 torpedo runs conducted at Nanoose Bay over the years have involved nonexplosive dummy warheads or electronic simulations.
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The exercises continued into the afternoon of the next day when the submarine completed a simulated torpedo run on " Silverstein ".
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"' Harold Humbrock "'( died February 9, 1993 ) was an Academy Award nominated Best Special Effects for the film " Torpedo Run ".
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Following the fighter runs, the ordnance-carrying aircraft would execute bombing and torpedo runs, preferably simultaneously to overburden the ship's defenses and negate evasive maneuvers.
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On 10 April while making a practice torpedo run during preparations for forthcoming Allied landings at Hollandia " Thorn " struck an uncharted reef.
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Arbuckle Lake is still called Submarine Lake by some because of the 32-foot replica of a Japanese submarine that was constructed and used for torpedo run training.
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The skipper, looking through the periscope, could see the torpedo run right to the ship and see the explosion; the crew could hear the high order explosion.
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""'Torpedo Run ! " "'is a 1986 board game published by Milton Bradley in which the object is to destroy your opponents ships before they can destroy yours.
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At 0957, a plane making a torpedo run on " Phoenix " was shot down by the ship's machine-gun fire, but in a few minutes a bomber hit.
