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From: wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jon Wilson)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: anti-torpedo torpedoes
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Date: 31 May 91 12:55:46 GMT
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From: wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jon Wilson)


div3@midway.uchicago.edu (Dwight Divine IV) writes:

> On the subject of torpedos and defenses against them, has anyone tried to
> develop an active defense?

The first such that I have heard of is when a young Japanese airman,
taking off from IJN Taiho during the Battle of the Phillipine Sea,
spotted incoming torpedo tracks (from USS Albacore, as I recall.) He
dove on one of the torpedoes, crashed into it and blew it up, along
with himself. Certainly an active defence :-)

Taiho was hit by other torpedoes though, and later blew up due to poor
damage control.

Jonathan Wilson
DEC Systems Support
Intergraph Corporation
wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com