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== Type 93 Heavy Torpedo ==
A long range, low-observability torpedo that delivers a 0.92 kiloton nuclear warhead inside an armor-piercing casing that detonates in the interior of an enemy vessel. It is based on the concept of the famed "long-lance" torpedo of World War Two.  Currently it is only used by two classes of the Japanese Empire based out of 

=== Design ===
The propulsion package delivers thirty seconds of thrust before coasting towards the target at high speed, with an indefinite range. Once it acquires a target it can use 12 seconds of additional thrust to maneuver the torpedo into the enemy vessel. The low-yield [[Nuclear Weapons|nuclear]] warhead is intended to deliver damage with concussive blast effect and radiation within the hull of the target vessel. 

=== Warhead ===
The warhead is a 0.92 kt plutonium [[Nuclear Weapons|nuclear]] payload fashioned from waste plutonium from the Rokkasko nuclear containment facility operated by Japan Nuclear Fuels, Ltd, a (fictional) subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The design borrows from a nuclear artillery shell that was part of the US arsenal during the middle of the Cold War. 

=== Manufacture ===
In the story where it was introduced, the weapon is manufactured solely by Mitsubishi at an Earth moon base they have established outside of Confederacy or [[Central Command|CENTCOM]] control. 

=== References ===
*Appears in initially in [[The Troubled Celestial River]] by [[SGTStoner]]

=== See Also ===
*[[Minekaze]]
*[[Shimakaze]]
*[[Japanese Empire]]

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