In particular, the torpedoes equipped with the "Zhiyuan" ship not only have an astonishing caliber of 610mm, which is far larger than the 533mm caliber of most ship torpedoes, but also are the Type 93 oxygen torpedoes that are regarded as secret weapons by the Japanese army, and the range and power are the first in Shijie. What's worse is that this torpedo uses liquid oxygen, and a careless operation error may lead to a torpedo explosion, and there is more than one Japanese ship that has been heavily damaged or even sunk in history (in history, the ratio of Japanese oxygen torpedoes to sinking enemy ships to their own warships is 1.5:1, of course, including accidental injuries in naval battles, but the danger of this torpedo is also enough to peep), so the more he thought about it, the more afraid Hu Weidong decisively asked people to carefully dismantle it, which was finally relieved

Although the reliability rate of only 25% (Note 1) is painful and dangerous, the Japanese Type 93 oxygen torpedo can indeed be called the pinnacle of Shijie torpedo development so far, and its indicators far surpass similar weapons in other countries. Due to the successful realization of pure oxygen combustion, the torpedo power has been greatly increased, and the range and speed have been greatly improved, reaching 22,000 meters at a maximum speed of 50 knots, and a staggering 40,000 meters at a low speed of 36 knots! This distance is even beyond the effective, and even maximum, range of the main guns of battleships of various countries today

At the same time, because of the use of pure oxygen. The engine of the oxygen torpedo does not exhaust a large amount of exhaust gases like a conventional torpedo engine, and it does not produce obvious wake, which greatly enhances the concealment of the torpedo attack. Even in broad daylight, the enemy has to wait until the torpedo is close to find out, small and medium-sized ships may still have time to dodge, and large ships basically need to be aligned with the torpedoes. It's simply too late to circumvent it. Of course, because of this, the number of times in history that Japanese oxygen torpedoes accidentally damaged their own warships (especially dangerous in dogfights) is unprecedented

But. Since the main engine was started by air, there was still a clear track at the initial distance of 300,400 meters, but this distance compared to the ultra-long range of the Type 93 torpedo. Completely negligible. Of course, if the reverse is understood, the Type 93 torpedo can only fully reflect its advantages if it is launched at a longer distance

In addition to the advantages of long range, fast speed and small track, the power of the Type 93 torpedo is also unprecedented, and the charge of the first type has reached an astonishing 490 kilograms, which greatly exceeds the torpedo charge reference for the underwater protection design of warships of various countries. The Type 93 torpedoes captured by the 15th Army were all its latest modifications, the Type 93 Type 3 heavy ship torpedoes, although the range was reduced to 50 knots of 15,000 meters (36 knots of 30,000 meters), but the charge reached an incredible 780 kilograms, even super battleships such as Bismarck, Yamato, and Iowa could not withstand its attack

From these characteristics, it can be deduced that oxygen torpedoes have special effects against large warships, but if they are more flexible small and medium-sized ships, this kind of torpedo may not be better than ordinary torpedoes. But. What Hu Weidong is most worried about now is the devil's large warships, which can be easily solved by small and medium-sized ships with artillery and aircraft, and there is no need to use torpedoes at all, so oxygen torpedoes are still very valuable for the current Chinese Navy

Although oxygen torpedoes are easy to explode, as long as they are operated carefully, the danger will never be greater than that of the detonator production workshop, and the value of destroyers is relatively low, even if one or two are unlucky enough to be blown up and sunk, the navy can bear it. There is no way, the strength of the Chinese Navy is too weak, and in order to enhance its combat power, it is impossible not to take some risks

The only regret is that because the Type 93 oxygen torpedoes are too large and heavy, they can only be used on ships, otherwise Hu Weidong would have let those Mitsubishi Type 96 land medium attack planes bring them with them when the air raid brigade was large before, and the results would have been greater. However, Hu Weidong was relieved when he thought about it, the torpedo planes had a poor hit rate and a high loss rate, and China's pilots and planes were very expensive, and Hu Weidong was willing to use them only when attacking the fleet stationed in Hong Kong, and where was this kind of opportunity so easy to find?

Theoretically, the most suitable carrier for the Type 93 oxygen torpedo is the submarine, but the Chinese Navy now has no submarines at all (on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, the government ordered 5 from Germany, but in history the Germans collected money but did not deliver the goods, which is also one of the reasons why Hu Weidong has always insisted on cash on delivery when doing business with the Germans, and Hans's commercial credit was really not good at that time) Not to mention, the torpedoes used by the main submarines on Shijie today are all 533mm caliber, so the design is not compatible with the 610mm caliber, If you want to equip this large torpedo, you can only redesign it (surface ships are relatively much easier to do), and now China does not even have the ability to copy submarines, let alone design it yourself?

In addition to submarines, torpedo boats with Type 93 oxygen torpedoes are also good, with less losses from self-explosions, while the ultra-long range of Type 93 oxygen torpedoes greatly improves the survivability of torpedo boats. At present, although there are no torpedo boats on the Shijie that can be equipped with 610mm caliber torpedo tubes, the design and modification of torpedo boats is much easier than that of submarines, and the production is much faster, and the troops can be formed quickly, but what makes Hu Weidong crazy is that China today can't even build torpedo boats of dozens of tons

Fortunately, Shen Honglie rebuilt the Qingdao shipyard during his tenure as mayor of Qingdao, and although he could not build a large ship, at least a small gunboat could still be produced. Theoretically speaking, to be able to produce gunboats, there must be hardware conditions for the production of torpedo boats, and the reason why they have never been built is because of Lao Chiang's comprador thinking, "Since you can buy them from abroad, why build them yourself?" As a result, the torpedo boats that China could produce by itself during the Beiyang period were all dependent on imports during the Republic of China

Note 1: The oxygen torpedo uses 99.5% pure oxygen under high pressure, and the pure oxygen passage part can not have oil, so the result can only be manually lubricated before the torpedo moving parts are launched, and the result of poor lubrication is that the torpedo completely ignores the existence of the bathymetric and jumps out of the water to breathe fresh air

In addition, since the oxygen torpedo uses 1 small gas cylinder to fill compressed air, it is directly 99.5% pure oxygen after it is used up, and the oxygen torpedo is easy to self-detonate at a distance of 1000 meters because it is just when the pure oxygen enters the combustion chamber......)