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    I have started cleaning it and I’m now thinking it is just in the white.
    Some parts are very deeply blued — for contrast, I suppose.

    I think a little highlighting with red is in order as well. I’ll just use something g easily removable like nail polish.

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    Really cool.

    Most likely a presentation piece for a former NPM employee.
    I personally know the location of two full size cutaway MK-48 Torpedoes, one of which I use regularly as a training aid.
    These are not generally available for public viewing.

    I also have a cutaway miniature MK-48 model on my desk and know of one other, both mounted on a very similar wood base with a small brass plaque inscribed with the recipient's name (in one case mine) and stating, "In appreciation of your contributions to the MK-48 program." presented by Gould Ocean Systems.

    There, I probably just said more than I should on a public forum.

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    I'd love to see those. I'm reading a book about the Imperial Japaneseicon Navy in WW2. They would routinely fire a spread of a half dozen of those big 24"Long Lance torpedoes from 10-16,000 yds and destroy a lot of things. It was the favorite weapon of the Imperial Navy and must have cost a fortune to mass produce. This isn't some artillery shell built in a factory, these things were complicated and difficult things to make.

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    The WWII torpedo "debate" makes for some long, fine reading! Just finished "Iron Men and Tin Fish", followed by "Nimitz at War". Don't remember which book, but there was mention that 24 jeeps could be produced for the cost of 1 US torpedo and until '44, those were all but useless...

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    Apparently the US torpedo detonator had a fragile framework that would simply break instead of explode. I can't imagine the feeling of going through all of that trouble to get a good shot at a nice target and have it not go off. "Wahoo" by Richard O'Kane has quite a bit about this issue. That was a book that I simply couldn't put down. It is more about how a US submarine worked and operated and the guy is such a good writer. Consider that Wahoo was a brand new boat and it didn't last a full year before the Japaneseicon forced it into real trouble and a bad torpedo circled and the boat sunk itself. I spent a lot of time talking to a WW2 submariner who was such a calm cool fellow that you could set him on fire and he wouldn't get excited. Very, very special people in that line of work.

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