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It didn't necessarily solve anything, it was a weapon of destruction, and since they weren't able to shoot normal bullets at a submarine under water because they weren't able to travel through water, the solution was a torpedo.
Submarines' inability to fire a weapon at an enemy, and ships' inability to shoot enemy submarines.

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