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Not really... lol - Same head, same exploder, same basic controllers, so same basic troubles. The US knew they had issues with the Mark 14 torpedo prior to issuing their version of the G7e (the Mark 18), and the issues of erratic running, poor depth keeping, and the steering fins locking full port or starboard and then coming after the shooting submarine (or ship or plane) were with the US basically for the duration. Most of the Mark 14 issues were "mostly fixed" by 1944, but the 18 continued to sink the shooting subs to the end of the war. Why not install vane "limiters", to where the torpedo couldn't do a tight 360? Read those articles a little though, and it is befuddling and beyond belief what happened to the submarines and crews and who were initially blamed for the "crisis"... Kind of like having this expensive, pretty rifle, that has a rotating barrel that is warped. You just never really knew where it would shoot... or if maybe the torpedo wouldn't just drop straight to the sea floor, maybe run hot in the tube and just not launch, or the best one - detonate upon leaving the tube and causing damage to the shooting boat. Some skippers were relieved of command over their vociferous opinion of the torpedoes... Both German and US navies had very similar problems, and very similar reactions from their respective bureaus of ordinance. "It wasn't me! I didn't do it!"