mk 23's

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Yes, that's entirely correct. To make it even weirder, most of the mark 23's were back-converted to Mark 14s because skippers wanted that slow speed for long shots. No wonder the couldn't hit anything! The slower your torpedo the longer your target has to do something purposeful or accidentally to ruin your shot. Not only that but inaccuracies in your setup are much more meaningful at slow speed.

Heck, if you can't get within range of a high speed Mark 14, it's not even worth it to take the shot unless it's a very high priority target and you just figure a 10% chance of success is as good as you'll ever see.

Funny thing is that in RL those long shots could and did hit.