61cm Quadruple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount

Introduction

大威力長射程を誇る、秘密兵器「九三式酸素魚雷」。
その必殺の酸素魚雷を四連装した水雷兵装の決定版が、この四連装【酸素魚雷】発射管です。
新型の主力駆逐艦や各巡洋艦などに搭載され、夜戦等で最大の雷装戦力を構成します。

"A famous high-powered, long range mount, the secret weapon "Type 93 Oxygen Torpedo". The oxygen torpedo was able to bring certain death with its four mounts as well as being the definitive torpedo mount, using the four twin [Oxygen Torpedoes] firing tubes. As the main equipment for destroyers and cruisers, it played a major role in night warfare and many other compositions."

A torpedo developed by the Japanese. It was nicknamed the "Long Lance" and it lived up to its name. While other navies used steam propulsion for their torpedoes, the Japanese came up with the concept of using oxygen to propel their torpedoes. The advantages were the torpedoes left no wake, had a longer range, and tended to be faster than the steam propelled ones. These were used for devastating effects during the sea battles of Guadalcanal. With the combination of both speed and damage, this torpedoes are some of the few naval weapons that allowed small ship like DD to heavily damage or even sink a BB.

Althrough archiving an unthinkable range of 40 km which almost triple than the maximum range at 14 km of the 21 inch Mark 15 torpedoes (alied) using compressed pure oxygen is so dangerous that the some of IJN cruiser get sunk because of the torpedoes explosion like Chikuma and Chokai in which both of them recieved minimum damage from enemy ship but getting sunk soon afterward because of the torpedoes explosion.

Notes

Buildable. Stock equipment of remodelled Nagara-class, Kuma-class, Takao-class, Tone-class, Myoukou-class ships and some remodelled DDs.

See Also

Type 93 Torpedo aka "Long Lance"