![]() Its long range, high speed, and heavy warheads provided a formidable punch in surface battles. The Type 93 had a maximum range of 40 km (21.6 nmi 24.9 mi) at 38 knots (70 km/h 44 mph) with a 490 kg (1,080 lb) high explosive warhead. Torpedoes were the only weapon that gave small warships, such as destroyers, the potential to cripple or sink battleships. The Japanese Navy invested heavily in developing a large, heavy, and long-range torpedo, the Type 93. The torpedo design was inspired by the British oxygen-enriched torpedoes used on the Nelson-class battleships. The Type 93's development (in parallel with a submarine model, the Type 95) began in Japan in 1928, under the auspices of Rear Admiral Kaneji Kishimoto and Captain Toshihide Asakuma. also torpedo seen to go on for ever, no WW2 torpedo had that kind of rang it seem to me it has a distance of a mile.
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