In "Japanese Destroyer Captain",Hara talks about how the standard procedure (which he actually came up with before the war),was to approach enemy ships in a hyperbolic curve,hold fire with the guns,launch at approx. 500 meters at the apex of the curve then fall back and start shooting once the torps hit. (A tactic that only really worked at night...and only before radar became prevelant in US ships).
While the torps did have amazing range he considered them to be highly inaccurate at over 1500 meters.
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