1943 Mk13 aerial torpedo is alive!

We were able to bring our museum's 1943 Mark 13 aerial torpedo to life. After a lot of work on the internal mechanism we were able to get the motor up and running. She sounds good but is running at a fraction of full speed.

[ВиктроКранов]

Thank you for showing how a real engine works! There aren't enough videos like this.

[gXX]

Those ww2 sonar operators were hearing hundreds these things full power must have been quite a sound.

[ppeterze]

Cool! Dare I ask what comes next? Once it's running at full speed, anyone have a Harpoon handy?

[fjs]

wow!! That is so cool to see, thanks Taigh!

[silverkong]

You guys are preservation ANIMALS~!! ROCK ON and ALOHA from NAS Barbers Point Hawaii!!

[Ichiban]

That is totally cool! In fact one of the coolest things I've seen in a long while

[carlosteran]

Very nice.quite amazing...I'd love to see my LT F 5b form my heinekl 111 h-6 working..

[williamchamberlain]

Hope you disconnected the arming mechanism.

That's a cool piece of tech

[DIVeltro]

I bet that thing is louder than hell when it's spun all the way

[Noidea-zl]

Can i drop it on my ex's ocean house never mind give me 50

[vilefly]

So, it is a pneumatic engine, eh? I thought they were gas engines that ran on a mix of nitrous oxide and liquid propane.

[mushmorant]

A really crappy torpedo until about the last year of the war. Look at its record in the Battle of Midway and as used by RAAF Beauforts in the SW Pacific if you need examples. Until the bugs were worked out of this piece of marine garbage (most of those Mark 13 torpedoes dropped in combat before mid 1944 are probably just that, still littering the ocean floor), the Americans would have been much better off using the 18 inch British Mark XII aerial torpedo which, though packing less of a punch, was much more reliable and likely to hit the target and explode if dropped properly.