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rubenandthejets · 03-21-09, 11:12 AM

These topredos should be pretty strong-they were one hit one kill designs, right? The problem might be more a case of if they exploded.

I keep coming across references to unreliabilty in almost everything the Japanese produced in WWII. One of the their top aces was killed when his plane literally fell apart!

It might be a lesser problem with a whole ship as one or two big companies built them, but typically small workshops supplied the components of the weapons and detection systems which were then assembled at the main factory. US quality control experts had a fit in the Korean War when inspecting the huge number of dud shells coming from Japanese suppliers and a crash course in QC wholeheartedly adopted in the early fifties. They "New Japan" factories were designed around it, but during the war QC was literally hit or miss.

Most of this is from books I read a while ago about the rebuilding of Japan so I don't have any references on hand. Have you guys found any references to this in your research? Are seroius breakdowns, duds and malfunctions part of the IJN campaign?

Sorry, I know this isn't helping mod the relative torpedo strengths but the thread got me thinking.....

03-21-09, 11:12 AM	#7
rubenandthejets 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 279 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	These topredos should be pretty strong-they were one hit one kill designs, right? The problem might be more a case of if they exploded. I keep coming across references to unreliabilty in almost everything the Japanese produced in WWII. One of the their top aces was killed when his plane literally fell apart! It might be a lesser problem with a whole ship as one or two big companies built them, but typically small workshops supplied the components of the weapons and detection systems which were then assembled at the main factory. US quality control experts had a fit in the Korean War when inspecting the huge number of dud shells coming from Japanese suppliers and a crash course in QC wholeheartedly adopted in the early fifties. They "New Japan" factories were designed around it, but during the war QC was literally hit or miss. Most of this is from books I read a while ago about the rebuilding of Japan so I don't have any references on hand. Have you guys found any references to this in your research? Are seroius breakdowns, duds and malfunctions part of the IJN campaign? Sorry, I know this isn't helping mod the relative torpedo strengths but the thread got me thinking..... __________________ HMAS Sydney III "Thorough and Ready"