Talk:Mark 24 mine

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 16:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Mark 24 Mine merge

Concur -- this article is too short to stand alone. But the merged article should have a redirect from Mk 27 torpedo.Thewellman (talk) 04:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

No -- This is a different weapon to FIDO; and the idea of a stub is to let it grow. What is the fascination with merging articles on different subjects together? Xyl 54 (talk) 16:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

First success

According to the current article, it speculates whether U640 or U657 was the first sunk by a Mk.24 Mine. According to uboat.net, U657 was sunk by HMA Swale. So I suspect this option can be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.246.132.177 (talk) 01:41, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Fixed; there is some confusion over which boat was sunk on 14th, by the Catalina, and which on 17th, by Swale. I've re-written the opener to reflect that. Kemp also refers to U-456 as the first U-boat sunk by FIDO, so I've put that in, too. And uboatnet is actually quite equivocal on the matter, saying here; "The first confirmed FIDO sinking...occurred 14 May ...and sank U-640 with a MK24 torpedo [more probable is that the first victim was the U-657 on May 17 - Editor]". Xyl 54 (talk) 18:01, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Successful but order reduced?

"Initially 10,000 torpedoes were ordered, but FIDO proved so effective that the order was reduced to 4,000." That doesn't make sense. Why would anyone reduce an order for a successful weapon? Is the word "effective" meant to be "expensive"? 121.209.71.44 (talk) 14:41, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

• It makes sense to me. What I take from this is that they expected to get one hit for every, say, 10 of these used (which means a lot would be needed) but experience showed that they got one hit for every 4 used. Hence to get the same number of hits, fewer of these were needed. FerdinandFrog (talk) 19:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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