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air-dropped torpedoes typically do not arm until they have traveled a significant distance through the water for obvious reasons. british torpedoes of the era were alcohol-fueled, which might possibly have started a fire but probably not exploded when rammed into something while unarmed. furthermore,
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also aircraft carriers were insanely vulnerable to an attack by conventional dive-bombing. admittedly the british could be excused for not knowing this in early 1940, but this puts the idea that they precisely calculated the amount of high explosive required to break not-graf-zeppelin's keel into some question
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