Pre WW2 it was not considered a battleship killer by itself.įor torpedo and torpedo bomber development you really need to look to the naval air arms of Britain, USA and Japan. But until WW2 it was the only way of bringing a sufficiently large explosive charge to bear against a heavily armoured warship at sea with the prospect of letting in enough water to slow it down for it to be sunk by other means. It was only in WW2 that a lot of development went into increasing drop heights and increasing drop speeds to increase the safety margins for the dropping aircraft. The problem with the torpedo was that it was a relatively large weapon that required much training to ensure an accurate drop relatively close to a usually heavily defended target at low level and relatively low speed, to ensure success. ![]() It is an exceptionally wide topic covering the period from WW1 all the way through to Korea (some USN Skyraiders used them against a dam in 1951).
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