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Originally Posted by Red October1984
Which are better? The Mk 14 or the Mk 23?
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That's really kind of a difficult question.
Early war, the Mk14 was riddled with problems. Stock models the problems to a degree, but not nearly at historical levels. TMO models them closer to historical levels, but my experience still not to the true historical level. From what I understand, if they had as much as a 25% success rate with the torpedoes, then they were doing very well.
The Mk23 was essentially a Mk14 with the problems corrected and the long range removed. When the Mk23 came out, they used them until the Mk14s were repaired, then went back to the Mk14s because of the long range option. I'm not sure of the specific dates.
I know someone else here can give better detail.
TMO adds a good description of torpedoes in the appropriate screens.