Torpedo tubes.
Torpedo tubes.
Basicly how big are they. The Ditl only talks abaut hoow many torpedos they can fire.
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I imagin the tube would be the size of the torpedo it fires. The whole thing including loading/magazine ect would be rather larger.
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I'd make a guess at the tubes being slightly longer than the torp itself, judging from what I know of subs and their torps.
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Does anyone know where to get hold of a floorplan of the torpedo bay from ST2? Since the port airlock opens directly into the bay, that gives us a fixed point to measure the bay forwards from. The distance between the forward edge of the bay and the front of the pod would give us the length of the tube itself.
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But was that a standard tube? Maybe they had a special one for offical occasions such as funnerals and probe launchs. So that people could work on the pay load.
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They were using the same room during the battle, although there are a few issues with some scenes. Cadets marching straight out the airlock, and Spock's torpedo coffin being launched from the disabled port tube being a couple of them.
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Hmm. Potential trouble. Using an image from EAS, I've measured the distance from the forward edge of the airlock to the front of the laucher to be 20 m, and the diametre of the airlock to be 3.25 m. This latter is a lot bigger than it appears in the film - I'd eyeballed it as 2-2.5 m, tops. Ideas, anyone?
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I'm refering to the portal Kirk & Co boarded the ship through - it's slightly smaller in diametre than the height of the travel pod they used, which is itself (going by comparisons to Kirk) something like 2.7 m tall (looks like I understimated it slightly). So either the diagram has overestimated the diameter by a bit over 15%, or the refit E-nil is almost 50 m shorter than previously thought.
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Problem solved - the diagram renders the airlock too large relative to the torpedo pod when compared with the E-nil in TMP. Unfortunately the TMP image I used was taken at an angle looking forwards, rather than square-on, renering it unsuitable for the original calculation. Back to the drawing board I guess.
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