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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
The general size of "close to 21 inches" (for a while the Germans played with 50cm while French torps tended to be 55cm until 1964) was probably an unspoken consensus of being the best compromise between capability and portability (which also means number of rounds carried), especially inside the confined spaces of a sub.
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During both world wars both the u-boats and allied submarines used 533, clearly the latter taking their inspiration from the former. But my knowledge doesn't go any further back than that.
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