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Lockwood's men replaced the TNT in several warheads with cinder concrete and attached the normal contact mechanism. Test torpedoes were then dropped 90 feet along a wire suspended from a crane into an empty drydock where they landed squarely on steel plates. A direct, 90-degree hit produced a dud seven out of 10 times--a 70 percent failure rate almost two years into the war.
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I found this page and thought it might be helpful to you guys who are modding torpedo failure rates:
http://www.historynet.com/air_sea/na...tml?page=1&c=y
And some other torpedo links:
https://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/html/part2.htm
http://www.ww2pacific.com/torpedo.html
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTUS_WWII.htm
http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/tubes/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1592/torpedos.html
http://www.microworks.net/pacific/armament/