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Originally Posted by ASWnut101
Nuclear Submarines? I know the Belgrano was sunk by a vintage, non-nuclear sub with ancient WWII torpedoes.  |
The sub was a reasonly modern nuclear sub. Yes it did use Mk 8 Torpedoes instead of the Mk 24 Tigerfish, but there were two reasons for this.
1 The Tigerfish was unreliable and didn't have a good history of reliablity
2 The Mk8 had a bigger warhead, wich they believed (correctly) that would do more damage to armored WW2 vintage vessal.
Of the three mk 8's fired two hit and exploded, sinking the Belgrano, one missed the cruiser and hit a destroyer, but failed to exploed! ( The argintinians heard it hit their ship, later examination found the dent and marks from impact.)