A surviving Singapore base could give American submarines access to substantial British torpedo stocks. The comparison attributes the British weapons' fewer unresolved defects to greater testing expenditure, while acknowledging that they still had problems of their own. This makes the early Mark 14's faults a practical reason to consider using Allied weapons. An imagined, partly humorous exchange between British and American chief petty officers proposes adapting those torpedoes to American fire-control arrangements. The proposed compatibility remains speculative.
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Singapore could give US submarines a better-tested torpedo option
British torpedo stocks offer a proposed response to Mark 14 defects, although adapting them to American submarines remains speculative.