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Originally Posted by baggygreen
i've heard that somewhere too heibges, well at least the bit about the armour being thicker. I doubt the torps themselves were ww2 vintage, but were probably referred to as ww2 fish because they lacked guidance.
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they where mark eight straight running torpedoes used because the belgrano had what most ww2 cruisers and battleships had a reinforced steel belt around the hull at the depth bracket that a torpedo would strike the uks mk24 torp although wireguided lacked the explosive punch of the mk8 a wise decission by the captain to use those mk8's insted of the mk24's