Captain Mac: You need to do a little more research on the torpedo problem. It was mainly a CYA issue where those responsible for the acceptance of the faulty torpedoes were also involved in processing the complaints from the submarine reports. My Uncle spent 3+ years in Japanese prison camps partially due to torpedo duds first giving them away and then preventing the sub from protecting itself.
This is going to be way off topic, but you know, there is never enough money to do a job properly, never enough time, never enough everything. So if the Navy underfunded a torpedo development program, not only does underfunding happen all the time, it remains the responsibility of the funding agency.
These are some articles on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo
http://www.historynet.com/us-torpedo-troubles-during-world-war-ii.htm
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com...kwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/
If you examine the provided links, the stories tell you something about the behaviors of large organizations. They never accept responsibility for their failures. They are incapable of admitting fault. Change only comes through external stimuli. In this case, the Chief of the Bureau of Naval Ordnance was perfectly willing to let the Japanese sink the American submarine fleet, sweep the Pacific clean of American surface ships, allow Japan to win the war in the CBI, invade California, have the US lose the Pacific war, rather than admit that a Bureau of Naval Ordnance torpedo was a POS. Luckily, there were some people above the BuOrd who did not BuOrd looked stupid, they wanted to win the war, and they forced the BuOrd to fix their torpedo. It would not have happened without pressure from above, you can only have a Master/Slave relationship with psychopaths and narcissists. Notice, it was the submarine fleet that "found" the failures. They finally had the resources to run tests in Australia. How did the Bureau of Naval Ordnance react?
From
Mark XIV Torpedo Case Study
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a550699.pdf
In Western Australia, however, Rear Admiral Charles Lockwood took his submarine captains’ complaints seriously. On June 20, 1942, outside the harbor in King George Sound, in southwest Australia, RADM Lockwood test fired torpedoes against moored fishing nets. Although more than 800 torpedoes had been fired in combat, this was the first controlled test since1926. The firing proved to Lockwood’s own satisfaction that the Mark XIV was running on average 11 feet deeper than set. Washington ridiculed the test. The immediate reaction from the Bureau of Ordnance was that you did not have the torpedoes trimmed right. The weight distribution wasn’t right.....
This is called denial, what the Bureau of Naval Ordnance did, was denial. They created their own reality around themselves, everything that supported their glorious self image of themselves was accepted, and regardless of objective facts, evidence, data, everything else was rejected. And they went to great lengths to preserve their perception of self perfection. This behavior is true of all large organizations and is why they are incapable of self investigation. They always prove themselves perfect.
Also, luckily for the United States, the Japanese leadership was even more psychopathic than ours, and the Germans, well Adolf was a totally incompetent psychopath. In a way, he was our Ace in the Hole. I am glad we did not go to war with Russia after WW2, because even though Stalin was paranoid, he was a very competent paranoid. He also shot non performers. He had over 200 Admirals and Generals shot for various reasons, mostly for losing. Had they been Russian, I am pretty sure those peevish careerist US Admirals responsible for covering up the torpedo problems would have ended up in front of a Soviet firing squad. Stalin was not about letting fools put his life in jeopardy. A war against the USSR might not have gone as easily as they had against Italy, Japan, and Germany.