ooyodo, kasumi, i-class destroyer, and zara (kantai collection) drawn by sakazaki_freddy

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    【艦これ】雷装値【ザラ】

    お久しぶりです。引越や本業の方の新単行本(R18)の作業、冬イベであたふたしてかなり長期間休んでましたが、久々更新となります。アイオワ、初月、ザラ描きたい娘沢山増えて描きたいネタ増えたのでどんどん描きたいなぁと■15年の冬コミ反省会はもうしばらくお待ちください。■追記：「巡洋艦にはめずらしく」という文が「そうでもない」との数名の方からご指摘受け文章訂正するか検討中です。『巡洋艦』のくくりにおいて戦前戦後の全巡洋艦からの割合では珍しい特徴かと考えての記述でしたが少し勉強するお時間いただければと■参考：「イタリア巡洋艦史」など

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    NWSiaCB
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    A little late, but it's only "unusual" for the cruisers of certain nations not to have torpedoes. (Especially the heavy cruisers, like Zara.) American cruisers were almost entirely devoid of torpedoes except for the Atlanta-class, which, for an American ship, was more like an oversized destroyer than a typical cruiser. (It also had plenty of ASW.)

    Torpedoes on heavy cruisers were notably more trouble than they were worth, ESPECIALLY the notoriously volatile Long Lance/"Oxygen Torpedoes". Any ship with an 8" gun or larger (which had much more range than a destroyer's 4" or 5"ers) was unlikely to ever close with the enemy close enough that they could use a non-homing torpedo. More heavy cruisers were sunk by their own torpedoes being hit in combat than they actually sank using them offensively. Just ask Ckoukai, the cruiser with the ignominious distinction of being the only ship ever sunk by an aircraft carrier's tiny 5" self-defense weapon thanks to a lucky shot to the torpedoes detonating the whole ship.

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    • drmchsr0
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    NWSiaCB said:
    Just ask Ckoukai, the cruiser with the ignominious distinction of being the only ship ever sunk by an aircraft carrier's tiny 5" self-defense weapon thanks to a lucky shot to the torpedoes detonating the whole ship.

    First of all, Choukai was scuttled by Fujinami. While she was hit by the USS White Plains' single deck gun (and presumably had her torpedoes exploded by the effects of said shots), she was then further crippled by air attacks from Taffy 1 and Taffy 2 before being rendered dead in the water.

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