What kind of view of a torpedo would a jet pilot have
Oh I missed the “view of” in your comment, I thought you were just asking what kind of torpedo he might have...
One of the guys was a Navy helicopter pilot. He was flying a CH-53, a big heavy-lifter the Marine Corps uses for certain things. Off the East Coast they do a lot of shooting, at the time it was off Puerto Rico.”Cdr Fravor said the helicopter pilot’s job at the time of the incident in the “mid to late ‘90s” included retrieving BQM aerial target drones, which deploy a parachute and fall into the ocean, as well as submarine telemetry torpedoes that collect data before blowing ballast and floating to the surface.
Mebbe one of those old S-2 sub hunters was around dropping torpedos?
An F-18 certainly would not have any.
Typical Popular mechanix level writing.
Read the story, a helicopter pilot relayed his experience.
It was a helicopter pilot, lowering a diver to retrieve a dummy torpedo. He saw some massive thing suck the test torp under the water.
You have to read the article to learn it was a chopper pilot doing torpedo retrieval. So the torpedo was already drifting in the water.