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Originally Posted by Subnuts
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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Of the 106 launched, the Mk 27 achieved a 31% hit rate sinking 24 ships and damaging an additional 9.
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Which is still a hell of a lot better than what the Germans achieved with their own acoustic torpedoes. Then again, the Japanese never managed to develop countermeasures against it before the end of the war. I'm not sure if they even knew it existed. |
The poor Japanese. By the time they finally started building proper radar-equpped escorts in numbers they were being sunk from the air by carriers as well as from below the sea. Better yet, the Japanese never got to read our mail the way Bletchley Park would eventually read Donitz's.