Uboat Torpedo Gyro

[kennethc]

Anyone seen this kind of device before? =>The Kriegsmarine Uboat Torpedo Gyro
http://ww-2militaria.com/b/new/gg/gg0072/desc.htm

Can someone share a period photo of this device?

[CollectRussia]

The LUT device was a clockwork mechanism that steered the torpedo in a zig zag pattern for attacking convoys. There are photos in Rossler's Die Torpedoes der Deutschen U-Boote, pp 123, also the U-505 in Chicago still has its original LUT programmer mounted between the torpedo tubes.

Pretty cool piece of pre-transistor machinery.