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Its safer when you store the fuel/oxidizer separately. The moment you put them in a cartridge, you lose that safety. In fact, I'd venture to say that it's more dangerous as 1.3 gun propellants abound but I wouldn't be shocked if the light gas mixture they're talking about is 1.1 when confined as it is.hectmarr wrote:I suppose it is safer to handle this technology than to have the ship crammed with conventional military explosives. If you have a problem, you eject gas out of the boat quickly
During the Battle off Samar (in the eastern Philippines) a five-inch (127 mm) shell (while in most circumstances a five-inch shell would not penetrate a cruiser's armored deck nor cause serious damage) from escort carrier USS White Plains struck the heavy cruiser ChÅkai which detonated the cruiser's Type 93 torpedoes, disabling her rudder and engines; she was scuttled the next day. The same Samar engagement saw heavy cruiser Suzuya sunk by the detonation of her own Type 93 torpedoes; a bomb near-missed the starboard amidships which set off the torpedoes in the starboard tube mounts; the resultant fires propagated to other torpedoes nearby and beyond, the subsequent explosions damaging one of the boilers and the starboard engine rooms and eventually reaching the main magazines.