Episode 157 - The Mk 14 Torpedo and How the US Hated Their Own Submariners

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🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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During WWII the US developed a revolutionary new torpedo that excelled at attempting to murder the people who launched it. This didn't seem to bother the US Navy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14/ https://navalunderseamuseum.org/mk-14/ https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/torpedo-scandal-rear-adm-charles-lockwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/ https://www.businessinsider.com/how-legendary-wwii-navy-submarine-uss-tang-sank-itself-2020-10

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4:20.0	Mora, Libra, Changlu, Shekha, Mora, Libra, Changlu, Shekha, Mora,
4:50.0	on an amodilath but, you know, for the early history of Subs, and we've talked about, like U Boats and civil war summaries
5:01.0	um a lot and they all sound really really bad. But American summaries not much better
5:08.0	eh they were like as seems to be the quality of life for an AmericanThat a USSR was much better
5:15.0	U-boat crewman.
5:16.0	Sure.
5:17.0	That is mostly due to just not having a lack of resources due to losing a war.
5:25.4	And not having the entire world trying to blow you up all at once.
5:31.2	But subs at the time were pretty shockingly low-tech things, even in comparison to what
5:37.6	they were firing, which was torpedoes, which is mostly what we're talking about today,
5:42.0	so they did have debt guns because like an early submarine doctrine was to mostly use
5:49.6	your debt guns, because you're supposed to surface and then let people spread there.
5:54.2	Yeah.
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