Mark 16 torpedo

Mark 16 torpedo
Mark 16 torpedo
Type	Anti-surface ship torpedo^[1]
Place of origin	United States
Service history
In service	1943–1975^[1]
Used by	United States Navy
Wars	World War II
Production history
Designer	Naval Torpedo Station^[1] Naval Research Laboratory
Designed	1943^[1]
Manufacturer	Naval Torpedo Station^[1] Naval Ordnance Station Forest Park
Produced	1943 - post-World War II^[1]
Number built	> 1,700^[1]
Specifications
Weight	4,000 pounds (1,810 kg)^[1]
Length	246 inches (6.2 m)^[1]
Diameter	21 inches (533 mm)^[1]

Effective firing range	11,000 yards (10,060 m)^[1]
Warhead	Mk 16 Mod 7, HBX^[1]
Warhead weight	746 pounds (338 kg)^[1]
Detonation mechanism	Mk 9 Mod 4 contact/influence exploder^[1]

Engine	Turbine^[1]
Propellant	"Navol", concentrated hydrogen peroxide^[1]
Speed	46.2 knots (85.6 km/h; 53.2 mph)^[1]
Guidance system	Gyroscope^[1]
Launch platform	Submarines^[1]

The Mark 16 torpedo was a redesign of the United States Navy standard Mark 14 torpedo to incorporate war-tested improvements for use in unmodified United States fleet submarines. The torpedo was considered the United States standard anti-shipping torpedo for twenty years;^[2] although significant numbers of Mark 14 wartime production remained in inventory. This hydrogen peroxide propelled, 21 inch (53 cm) torpedo was 246 inches (6.25 m) long and weighed 2 tons (1800 kg).^[2] The Mod 0 warhead contained 1260 lb (572 kg) of TPX explosive and was the most powerful conventional submarine torpedo warhead ever used by any Navy. The United States used TPX explosive which was about 75 % more powerful (7405 J/g.) than the Type 97 explosive in the larger Japanese Type 93 Mod 3. (780 kg of Type 97, 4370 J/g.) The Mod 1 warhead contained 960 lb (435 kg) of TPX or HBX (7552 J/g.) explosive.^[2] The torpedo could be set for straight- or pattern-running.^[2]

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Torpedo History: Torpedo Mk16". Retrieved 13 June 2013.
1 2 3 4 Kurak, September 1966, p.144

References

Naval Weapons web site: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTUS_WWII.htm
"Naval Weapons of World War Two" by John Campbell
"Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War" by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II
Kurak, Steve (September 1966). "The U. S. Navy's Torpedo Inventory". United States Naval Institute Proceedings.

U.S. Navy torpedoes

Pre-World War II	Howell Mark 1 torpedo Whitehead Mark 1 torpedo Whitehead Mark 1B torpedo Whitehead Mark 2 torpedo Whitehead Mark 2C torpedo Whitehead Mark 3 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 1 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 2 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 3 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 4 torpedo Whitehead Mark 5 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 6 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 7 torpedo Short Mark 7 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 8 torpedo Bliss-Leavitt Mark 9 torpedo Mark 10 torpedo Mark 11 torpedo Mark 12 torpedo

World War II	Mark 13 torpedo Mark 14 torpedo Mark 15 torpedo Mark 16 torpedo Mark 17 torpedo Mark 18 torpedo Mark 19 torpedo Mark 20 torpedo Mark 21 torpedo Mark 21 Mod 2 torpedo Mark 22 torpedo Mark 23 torpedo Mark 24 mine Mark 25 torpedo Mark 26 torpedo Mark 27 torpedo Mark 28 torpedo Mark 29 torpedo Mark 30 torpedo mine Mark 31 torpedo

Post-World War II	Mark 32 torpedo Mark 33 torpedo Mark 34 torpedo Mark 35 torpedo Mark 36 torpedo Mark 37 torpedo Mark 39 torpedo Mark 43 torpedo Mark 44 torpedo Mark 45 torpedo Mark 46 torpedo Mark 48 torpedo Mark 50 torpedo Mark 54 MAKO Lightweight Torpedo

Related topics	Bliss-Leavitt torpedo Schwartzkopff torpedo Whitehead torpedo

See also: AUM-N-2 Petrel, Mark 60 CAPTOR, RUR-5 ASROC, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, and UUM-125 Sea Lance

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