wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jon Wilson) (05/31/91)
From: wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com (Jon Wilson) div3@midway.uchicago.edu (Dwight Divine IV) writes: > On the subject of torpedos and defenses against them, has anyone tried to > develop an active defense? The first such that I have heard of is when a young Japanese airman, taking off from IJN Taiho during the Battle of the Phillipine Sea, spotted incoming torpedo tracks (from USS Albacore, as I recall.) He dove on one of the torpedoes, crashed into it and blew it up, along with himself. Certainly an active defence :-) Taiho was hit by other torpedoes though, and later blew up due to poor damage control. Jonathan Wilson DEC Systems Support Intergraph Corporation wilson@b11.b11.ingr.com