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The type 95 torpedo was a torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Based on the formidable long lance type 93 torpedo, it was smaller in payload, range and diameter, and intended to be fired from a standard 21 inch torpedo tube of a submerged submarine. Type 95 torpedoes were also air launched, including in the Pearl Harbor attack.

Some have claimed this to be the best torpedo of the second world war.

External links

Japanese submarines (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/history/waimilhist/1997/im-folder/im-p6.html)
Type 95 torpedo specifications (http://members.fortunecity.com/armsmanufactureguide/Navy/TORP95.htm)

Categories: Stub | Japanese weapons | Torpedoes | World War II weapons

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Japanese Submarines (1355 words)
	The Type 95 also had by far the largest warhead of any submarine torpedo, initially 893 pounds (405 kg), increased to 1210 pounds (550 kg) late in the war.
	All Japanese torpedoes made during the war used Japanese Type 97 explosive, a mixture of 60% TNT and 40% hexanitrodiphenylamine.
	Most importantly, the Type 95 used a simple contact exploder, and was therefore far more reliable than its American counterpart, the Mark 14, until the latter was improved in late-1943.

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