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Our company designed the sensory electronics for the Mk48 torpedo. I was one of the design engineers, and later for testing the actual performance. Originally the MK48 was intended to have a nuclear warhead, and the entire weapons section was short and lightweight. Due to treaties, the Navy altered it have only a conventional explosive warhead. This dramatically changed the weight distribution, made it heavier, and as a result it had less range, less speed, and clumbsier to handle. We analyzed hundreds of runs against both surface ships and submarines, and delivered the algorithms as to where the best explosive power was delivered. Submarines are tough to defeat, since the torpedo may go along side, below, or above the target, at varying angles, aspect ratios, and varying closure speeds (including nose-on as in the movie). However, I guarantee that the MK48 is able to handle all of these, and there is no escape unless you are basically out of range, and if that, the Captain is a fool for firing and wasting it.
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A couple points, more than just Mk 48 torpedoes are used in the video. Harpoon and some other systems are used as well. One way you can tell the difference is the explosion. IF the ship rises up and snaps in half, it is a torpedo. Mk 48 is designed to break the keel of a ship, i.e. snap it into two distinct pieces. Harpoon and other missiles are designed to hole the ship and blow it apart from the inside out. It may take 2-3 Harpoons depending on the ship, its armor and where the missile penetrates. For most ships it only takes ONE Mk 48 torpedo to break it in half. Ships the size of aircraft carriers etc, may take a second torpedo or more depending on size tonnage and mass. But whatever ship it is, unless they have a top rated damage control crew, the ship is likely to sink even if it does not literally snap in half. I am former United States Navy Active, now medically retired due to service connected injuries as of 2014.
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The U.S. may have launched its first ballistic missile submarine in '57, but it wouldn't have had any missiles. Lockheed's first successful sub launch of the Polaris missile wasn't until late '59 or early '60. My grandfather worked on that after retiring from the Navy. He had a big certificate commemorating the launch.
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Remember exercise JTFEX 01-2? It was in 2001 when the German stealth submarine U-24 “sunk” the “USS Enterprise”?
The submarine passed all the security ships and surfaced right next to the aircraft carrier, having fictitiously sunk it. The assessment of a submarine always depends on its intended purpose
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@c.c.hiliner1065
1 month ago
The most powerful Man in the World is not the President of The United States, but the Captain of a Nuclear Submarine....
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