In attack on Death Star II's main reactor, proton torpedoes are deemed to have too small yield to damage reactor; instead, Wedge fired torpedoes on "power regulator", which produced 20 m wide and 40 m high explosion; using Wong's calculator, that would give 1 kiloton warhead for fighter-grade weapon (no wonder proton torpedoes are used exclusively on fighters; other ships would make no use of having them on-board).
( This gives it equivalent of 1 ton of TNT).
However, these figures are dubious at best. For one, explosions in vacuum do not behave like normal explosions, and as such yield should be higher. On other hand, they were targeting reactor, which would lower yield.
Analysis on my site.
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