Possibly because you don't want your adversary to get one of your unexploded tor...

		woadwarrior01 on Dec 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Greybeard Stories: The Jamming Gyro Possibly because you don't want your adversary to get one of your unexploded torpedos and copy / reverse-engineer / exploit a design flaw. Tactically that'd be far more devastating than losing a ship or two.