USS-Scorpion: Two Nuclear Torpedoes Still Sit 3,000 Meters Down — And Nobody Can Retrieve Them

YouTube ^ | February 27, 2026 | Naval Report

[broken_clock]

Calling the Glomar Explorer.

[PAR35]

The Russians did it.

[kvanbrunt2]

Maybe only the sub is there are the warheads are elsewhere.........

[Bobbyvotes]

Call James Bond agent 007. He did just that in one of his movies 😂

[BobL]

“The Russians did it.”

Don’t worry, they’ll show up.

[doorgunner69]

The USN released highly classified submarine weapons loadout information to some gen-z utubes jockey?

Fake

[MCSETots]

Nuclear “torpedo?”

Didn’t know there was such a thing. What would it be used for, making an enemy aircraft carrier glow in the dark?

[Red Badger]

Enemy submarines................

[SuperLuminal]

Target would probably be a harbor facilty...

[HYPOCRACY]

[rottndog]

They are irretrievable at that depth, considering they are entombed within thousands of tons of steel.

And of course, we are listening and can detect any attempts at recovery.

[californian by choice]

Typically, nuclear devices do not have the detonator installed; as a rule, this is done only when an attack is imminent—specifically, minutes before launching the device toward its target.

[Red Badger]

The problem is the plutonium in the warheads.

Eventually the casings will disintegrate, exposing the plutonium to raw seawater and from that point it becomes an environmental disaster..............for 24,000 years half life..............

[rottndog]

Called a SubRoc torpedo, it would be fired like a torpedo, break the surface and ignite its rocket, fly towards a target submarine, dive back into the water over the target, and then detonate.

Problem was that the boat launching it could not get far enough away to escape the kill radius of the nuclear blast. It was likely a suicide shot.

[Cold Heart]

From information given to them by Walker.

[rktman]

Oh NOOOOOOOO? What if they go off and fracture an unknown fault.

[meatloaf]

Look up ASROC. We had nukes on a destroyer.

[metmom]

Those poor men.....

[Red Badger]

They are not worried about them exploding.

They are worried about the plutonium leaking when the casings finally disintegrate form exposure to seawater. Then they will have a mess to clean up. Could be 20 years or 200 years from now. Nobody knows. They just have to monitor the site annually..............