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Old 03-26-2010, 10:48 PM
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some teeth, sorta

The Mk13a was a miserable weapon forced upon the Navy. The exploders were aweful, the practice warheads were lighter than the loaded weapon and fowled up the release points when the planes actually had to attack something. They had to come in low and slow otherwise the fish would do some strange aquabatics, then there was that maybe if it hit it might explode thingy. The Japanese were terrified of torpedos because they thought ours were just as devastating as thiers, so they went out of thier way to avoid being hit, and consequently they slaughtered the devastators whenever they could be found. The model torpedo was repainted and cleaned up, it went together well and sits nicely in the recess on the bottom fuselage. I redid they release straps and installed it before the landing gear as I didn't want to mess up the seemingly fragile gear struts....
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