Talk:533mm Quintuple Torpedo Mount (Initial Model)/@comment-31786686-20181228073934/@comment-5046483-20190623091155

So the problem was that they worked properly where they were manufactured which is why they always worked when BuOrd tested them and then blamed the end users, but not out in the Pacific because of variances in the Earth's magnetic field. That wasn't taken into account when designing the magnetic detonators.