Perhaps if the Brits would have shared their torpedo technology with us, things might have turned out differently in the early years of the Pacific War. Their torpedos seem to work.
“Perhaps if the Brits would have shared their torpedo technology with us, things might have turned out differently in the early years of the Pacific War. Their torpedos seem to work.”
Considering the range of technological assistance going both ways across the Atlantic I think the Brits would have helped in that area if asked. The problem was that the USN wouldn’t even admit that there was a problem for a long time.
There are some good videos on Youtube that explain exactly why our torpedoes sucked at the beginning of the war. If I were to summarize the problem I would say "Union Labor monopoly on torpedo manufacturing."
They were highly specialized machinists and nobody was going to be allowed to tell them anything.
Our torpedo technology would have worked much sooner in the war if the Naval bureaucrats/admirals at the war department had listened, sooner, to one our most famous & beautiful Hollywood movie stars...
However, because she was a woman and because she was the #1 pinup-girl used by our servicemen, they chose to ignore her repeated proposals for over a year...
Once the new electronic concepts that she and a friend had developed were finally used, our torpedoes were extremely deadly...
In fact, she had unknowingly laid the groundwork for much of the advanced communications that we use today...