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Originally Posted by Wolfcat
One torp kill on even heavy cruiser is doable. Yesterday, I sank one Myoko with single torp right below the rear turret. I guess it triggered the magazine explosion. But that takes extreme luck. On another occasion, another Myoko ate 3 torp but still kept on going. So out of the 3 torp types available to US sub force: mk10, mk14 and mk18, mk14 is the most powerful one?
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The Mark 10 according to wikipedia had a warhead that weighed 497 lbs., made of TNT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_10_torpedo
The Mark 18 mod 1 weighed 595 lbs, but was torpex, a 'stronger' explosive, while the Mark 14 mod 3 had a 668 lb torpex warhead
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTUS_WWII.php
The Mark 14 initially was made with a 500lb tnt head, similar to the Mark 10, and the 18 was first made with a 600lb torpex head. The difference between the 14 & 18 for the warhead weight was probably due to the 18's use of an electric motor (slower) and the additional battery weight (lead-acid). The Mark 10 also had a depth-keeping problem, due to the Navy having tested (such as they supposedly did) their torpedoes with a dummy "practice" warhead that was filled with water, that at the end of their runs, expelled the water and then floated to the surface (in theory anyway). The real warheads weighed quite a bit more of course, hence the deep-running behavior.