Talk:Mark 37 torpedo

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:41, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

entered service?
First this:
 * It entered service with the US Navy in the early 1950s, ...

then
 * ''Between 1955-56, thirty torpedoes were produced for development testing, with large-scale production commenced shortly afterwards.

After 1956 is early 1950s?--WerWil (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Size Comparison
This torpedo is 19 inch diameter, 11 feet length. Its replacement, the Mk 48 is 21 inch diameter, 18 feet length. Big difference. How many submarines or ships had torpedo tubes that could take thy=e MK 37, but not big enough for the Mk 48?

74.214.48.37 (talk) 22:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Not a ship size issue. Standard tubes are 21", so any boat capable of firing Mk XIVs could (in theory) fire Mk37s. (That presupposes refit with the appropriate firecontrol gear...) There was a tube length issue, but AFAIK, that only applied to the 21" TT; some tubes weren't capable of accomodating longer fish. (Not sure offhand if that meant they couldn't use prewar fish, which were longer, but that's the impression I get.) I believe some stern tubes in the Skipjacks & Skates were for Mk37s only, & some of the 21" tubes were shorter, also.   TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  00:12, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, the Mk 37 was designed for quietly "swimming out" of a 21-inch torpedo tube, rather than being ejected. There was also the tube length issue. Some Mk 37s were short enough that two could fit in a torpedo room rack. The bulk of 21" torpedoes were too long for the stern tubes intended for the Mk 37. The Mk 37 had several 1" thick guide studs, which centered the torpedo in the tube and allowed a water space for swimming out. The World War II Mark 27 torpedo also had this feature. The Skate and Tang classes (also USS Darter, but not the Skipjacks) were completed with stern tubes for the Mk 37 that did not have ejection pumps, thus they could only use swim-out torpedoes in those tubes. Friedman states that these were usually called "countermeasures tubes" and only one reload was carried per tube. On all bow tubes, Mk 37s and all 21" torpedoes could be used. See Friedman, US Submarines since 1945 for details. To further confuse the issue, the stern tubes on Triton (SSRN-586) were full-length with an ejection pump. RobDuch (talk) 06:51, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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Can I be in service?
That notional "service history" section isn't, it's a single mention of a trivial incident that doesn't deserve inclusion. Can I be any clearer? TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  19:26, 15 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Perhaps an external link would be more appropriate. Underneaththesun (talk) 06:10, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
 * That works for me, tho I do think a section, with actual information, on its operational use iw merited.  TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  09:41, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Destroyer use
The Mark 37 was also used aboard Sumner-class destroyers that had undergone FRAM II refits, as well as some Gearings that underwent DDE conversion.


 * 216.152.18.132 (talk) 23:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)