CD Baumann
Airman
- 19
- Aug 2, 2024
The Mk 13 torpedo. It sucked. At least at first. As I'm sure most of us are aware it struggled in combat till 1944 when they got the bugs worked out. What I'd like to know is in that two year period was the USN able to use some workarounds, like with the mk 14 submarine variant, to get her functioning?
For example: sub commanders were told to subtract 10 feet from any depth estimates because the mk14 ran too low. They also had to switch from the magnetic fuze to a contact fuze. The latter needed to have her during pistol beefed up as she fired a projectile that was too light to explode the warhead.
So to reiterate, did they have any workarounds for the mk13 aerial version like this?
For example: sub commanders were told to subtract 10 feet from any depth estimates because the mk14 ran too low. They also had to switch from the magnetic fuze to a contact fuze. The latter needed to have her during pistol beefed up as she fired a projectile that was too light to explode the warhead.
So to reiterate, did they have any workarounds for the mk13 aerial version like this?
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