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Originally Posted by Stealhead
thankfully our navys' weapons today are much better and dont dud like they did in WWII or circle run and kill the vessel that launched it.
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We can only hope. Before WWII everybody in the US Navy thought that the Mk. 14 was the best thing since sliced bread, which was one of the big reasons the problems took so long to fix. The brass simply couldn't believe that their wonder weapon had so many serious problems. For all we know there might be some unknown flaws in some of the Navy's current weapons.
Just as recently as the current Iraq and Afghanistan wars our troops found out the hard way that a lot of Army and Marine Corps equipment wasn't as good as they thought (Humvee armor springs to mind).