Talk:Libeccio/@comment-99.10.190.84-20150811210834/@comment-24093250-20150812100340

Just a note about the torpedoes.

IJN torpedoes were superlative, true. Doesn't mean that other's torpedoes were not good. In fact, Italian torpedoes (which had a history, since the first torpedoes were created by Whitehead, which founded a torpedo-building factory in Fiume/Rijeka, then in Italy) had a good all-around performance; they were traditional, true (no oxygen thingies, just heated air), but they were nothing to sneeze at.

And, apart from some initial problems with the warheads (albeit less prominent and importnat than those experienced by the USN Mark 14 and the KM G7a because of the detonator), they had a good reliability.