In modern parlance, it would be an asymmetric weapon, designed to compensate for Japanese inferiority to more economically powerful Western nations. Developed in the late 1920s, the Long Lance, as Americans nicknamed it (the Japanese designation was the "Type 93"), was a remarkable device. One reason was the " Long Lance," the Japanese torpedo that was the most powerful weapon of its kind in the early years of World War II. The disaster at Pearl Harbor could be explained by surprise and treachery, but the Navy left two dozen warships in "Ironbottom Sound" off Guadalcanal. Navy, which had belittled the Japanese as incompetent, Guadalcanal came as a shock. and Japanese forces savagely battled on land, air, and sea to determine who would control the island and its strategic airfield.įor the U.S. In the autumn of 1942, Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands near Australia, became the focal point of the Pacific War. Navy warships began exploding in the middle of the night, America realized it had a problem. Japan's Long-Lance Torpedo: The Most Over-Hyped Weapon of World War IIĪs Japan discovered, there is a season for all weapons, and all seasons pass.
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