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Preferably with a POD not earlier than the mid-1930s, can the US get into service by 12/7/1941:

1. A better version of the Mark 14 and Mark 15 type, with either a working influence exploder, or with the influence exploder removed.

2. A first-generation passive homing acoustic torpedo. I'm thinking for surface use only, against escorts, oilers and transports. Maybe 25ish knots speed and several thousand yards theoretical range (though of course a sub will never launch at over a thousand yards or so). I'm not looking for a total ASB Mark 48, I'm thinking of something like the wartime German G7es / GNAT.

I see three categories of issues here.

1. Technical. Can the US build a GNAT-type torpedo by, say, 1939? -ie, in time for it to reach the fleet in reasonable numbers.

2. Political / Motivational. How does the Mark 14 get sorted out? How does the money get freed up for live fire testing during the depression? Something with getting FDR involved?

How do you get the Newport Torpedo Station to admit any flaws and fix them? FDR again? Remember the station has powerful patrons in Congress who protected it IOTL. Horse trading or a scandal?

3. Production. Pre-war, funding is scarce. The USN entered the war with alarmingly few torpedoes on hand, and little ability to build more quickly. Newport would not 'allow' a second source facility to be built. How do you get around that?
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