Posted on 03/04/2026 6:40:16 AM PST by srmanuel
I'm surprised it's been that long since an US Submarine has sunk an enemy ship using a torpedo. You wonder what the Captain and crew of that submarine were thinking when they finally fired a torpedo in a real war versus in training.
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Amen. I miss Jim Robinson today.
USCGC Taney fought the Japanese during the attack on Pearl Harbor; she had been transferred to the navy in mid-late 1941 and armed up to naval standards.
She’s currently in Baltimore harbor, a floating museum ship.
Good to know.
Even on an SSBN when I was in, we went to the Bahamas to practice shooting at real targets. I can still remember the captain saying "MATCH BEARINGS AND SHOOT" during the submerged exercises.
One of my first jobs on board was to be on plot during battle stations TORPEDO. A few years later when I was employed at a civilian nuclear power plant, one of the guys was playing a computer game and he had trouble understanding how you could take a bearing from our submarine and get the other submarine's (or surface contact) course and speed. A couple of plots that I drew for him that we talked through and he had it all figured out.
Question? Do our modern subs have to launch torpedos from periscope depth after a visual ID of the target?
Nope. They have the capability to launch from lower depths. Whether it is advisable is another question.
It would be great when the sub surfaces on its return to port, the crew places a broom on the periscope.
I had to look it up, I bet they will unless there are some security issues involved.
The captain said “oops” afterward as this was a training exercise and they were to just observe....
Thx!
If you look closely at the bow of the ship after being hit by the torpedo you can see 3 sailors that appear to be jumping into the water.
“the USS Parche if you know you know”
A role inherited by the USS Jimmy Carter so I’ve heard. A late friend of mine was involved in modifying Parche in some fashion.
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