[central_va]

For the most part Jap weapons sucked but when they did it right they had a winner. The knee mortar for one, it was devastating. Nip 18 inch naval guns were shockingly powerful.

[Coronal]

Those powerful guns were undone by poor gunnery control. Ziggy Sprague commented during the battle on how poor the Japanese gunnery was at Samar.

[sparklite2]

For the most part Jap weapons sucked

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They weren’t alone in that. For a shameful portion of the war in the Pacific, American torpedoes were worthless. Subs would come back with torpedoes expended and not a hit.

Sub skippers complained to Washington and were basically told to ‘git gud.’ Eventually a demonstration convinced some pencil pusher and the problem was resolved.