Remember the Kursk ?!

[savvy]

Interesting read.

http://www.wlhoward.com/id551.htm

 

[oilyriser]

That torpedo is fascinating. I wonder if one can get the cavitation bubble to collapse exactly on a tapered tail end, to reduce drag even more. There might be a certain speed where this happens.

 

[Al]

Good information. But his obtuse writing style with run-on sentences and insane paragraph lengths torpedoed me.

 

[W8inDE]

How can I forget. We are from Murmansk, Russia...home of the Russian Federation's Nuclear Fleet!

 

[Schmoe]

Supercavitation. Neat stuff. But, it seems that the rocket torpedo must be programed to take out a ship, so it would still have to be identified. Sure, it would be easy to do on surface vessels, but not submarines. The amount of noise that thing would make when taking off would give away their position to any nearby sub or through acoustical monitoring.

 

[Pablo]

I expected a read (update) on the Kursk. Not speculation.

I have no doubts about such things existing, but where is truth on the Kursk? Is there a website?

 

[savvy]

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The amount of noise that thing would make when taking off would give away their position to any nearby sub or through acoustical monitoring.

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That's probably the first thing they addressed was the noise canceling technology. Even if they didn't, there would be no time to evade for the ship targeted, only pursuit with another vessel because the one that the torpedo hit was basically vaporized.


I just ran across the Kursk article while looking for something else. I have no reason to disbelieve that all the information is 100% accurate and factual.

This forum is for the discussion of things in a General nature. There will be no Religion/Sex/Politics posted in here or anywhere on the Board.

[ February 13, 2006, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: 59 Vetteman ]

 

[Schmoe]

The second they flood the tubes and open the doors, it will be detected. Sure they will get the shot off, but there will be one homing in on them at about 50 knots.