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Originally Posted by DaveyJ576
The Scorpion carried Mk-37 torpedoes on her last voyage . . . Early versions of this weapon (like the ones carried by Scorpion) had a defect in the battery design that could lead to overheating of the battery . . . If the battery got hot enough, tests showed that it could trigger a low-order (partial) detonation of the warhead
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I've read a few books where this was posited as the most likely explanation for the loss of the Scorpion.