Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions" video.

One of the things that is surprising in all of this, is that even though Admiral King had been made aware of this, & had demanded something be done. It still took over a year to get fixed.
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! I've always wondered WHY the US Navy had a torpedo that did NOT work. Especially when all of these aviators & submariners & sailors were putting their lives on the line trying to use these torpedoes that did NOT work.
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Idk, I personally believe that the whole issue should be considered as criminal negligence considering that men were risking their very lives to use a weapon that had never been properly tested! And I also wonder how many of our sailors died because of the faulty torpedo & if there was ever an investigation to establish an estimate for how many lives were lost due to this. Cuz let's face it, a submarine fires a torpedo & it works the ship is worried about trying to stay afloat. A submarine fires a torpedo & it doesn't work then the ship is trying to depth charge or somehow kill the submarine!!
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Another thing I'd like to point out is that THE JAPANESE created the longest running & arguably the deadliest torpedo of the war. Exactly how many American ships were heavily damaged and/or sunk just at Guadal Canal? Evidently "the poor underfunded" Japanese spent the money to make sure their torpedoes were as deadly as possible. The US Navy & the Bureau of Ordinance designed & paid $10,000 a piece for torpedoes that didn't work for 2 years. The Navy SHOULD HAVE had a company design their torpedoes like they do with aircraft. That is where it all began. Just imagine the "Torpedo Battleship" having all dud torpedoes! Maybe it wouldn't have taken 2 years of war to get it fixed. But I guess they would have never heard back from the Torpedo Battleship so they wouldn't know for sure!
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