The Mk 15 Destroyer-Launched Torpedo: End of an Era

Abstract

The Mk 15 torpedo, designed and developed by the former Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1930s, was the last destroyer-launched antisurface ship weapon to see wide service use. Longer, heavier, and more powerful than its predecessors, it was the Navy's principal destroyer torpedo when World War II began. During the early war years, three new classes of improved Navy destroyers having twin deck mounts of multiple torpedo tubes began entering the fleet. As is recounted in this booklet, salvos of Mk 15 torpedoes launched from those destroyer tubes proved decisive on several occasions in the Pacific campaign.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 23, 1993
Accession Number
ADA274999

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Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Destroyers
  • Military Forces (United States)
  • Military Organizations
  • Navy
  • Rhode Island
  • Second World War
  • Ships
  • Torpedo Tubes
  • Tubes
  • War

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  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design