Talk:61cm Quadruple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount/@comment-25471396-20150526204328/@comment-202.168.70.82-20151021011630

the case with guns are quite different because first of all, shells travel at speed several order of magnitude faster, computing a firing solution with guns were nowhere as difficult

and despite this mind you, the hit rate of gun shells... were somewhere on the order of SINGLE DIGIT percentage depending on guns and nation (some had more advanced fire control computer than others, USN for example had one of the most advanced, they really like their guns)

but more importantly... a ship carry MANY shells and can reload them in relative safety...

torpedoes... a different story, at least at that time (today we have armored launcher box with automatic reload mechanism), because a ship doesn't carry that many reload for their torpedo launchers...

each shot is an asset that has to count (either by scoring a hit or by preventing an attack, etc)... and having to reload them in the middle of battle... even with the splinterproof casing for the torpedo and housing of the launcher was a difficult not to mention DANGEROUS process for everyone involved.