How Did This Torpedo Modification Expose Pearl Harbour's Weakness?
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Published 2023-12-08
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In this video we investigate how the Japanese modified torpedoes so that they would work in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbour.
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All Comments (21)
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Bloody hell, that's mechanical PID Loop!
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Lot of weirdly negative comments here. I really enjoyed this video, just as I enjoy the non-military ones. Thank you for it and all the hard work you clearly put into these videos! Those animations don't look like they happen quickly!
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Some mention of the lessons the Japanese took from the British raid on Taranto may have been educational to viewers.
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Didn't realize before how that works, very informative!
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It was the British sinking the Italian ships at Taranto that gave The IJN the idea
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I wonder why there are so many people in here butt hurt about either the Taranto raid(which has been mentioned in these very comments to be a different solution to what the Japanese came up with)or the fact the video has a sponsor(yes,from a bad game),like they've never seen a sponsor in a video before(like the many other bad games/products out there).
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Japan had the best torpedo design in the world during WWII. The U.S. had the worst torpedo design in the world during the first year and a half or so of WWII. It took until mid 1943 for the U.S. Navy to finally have a reliable torpedo. The new U.S. torpedo was still not as good as Japan's, but it worked.
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Fantastic video, I'm glad you're covering interesting naval topics like this as well as your usual naval content! So fascinating!
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Beautifully done sponsorship, using it to help illustrate the point.
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The Japanese engineered a solution that works, and I love it. If America had tested these solutions, they would've had torpedo nets or something similar in place to stop the torpedoes short of their targets.
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Mechanical PID regulator. Cool!
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Excellent! What you describe with the vane control system is related to a technique called PID (acronym) to reduce over-compensation. Worth looking up on Wikipedia or some such.
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I never knew about this i thought it was just normal torps.
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I'd like to see a video about why the American torpedoes at the battle of Midway were all duds.
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Man one of your best videos, even the ad giving more context, great video!
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Excellent analysis and video! Thanks for educating me!
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From watching Tora, Tora, Tora so many times I knew about this torpedo situation, and that British did the same trick against the Italians at Toranto.
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Brilliant piece of tech.
