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I am very familiar with the game.

I used the data base editor in Harpoon II and Harpoon III to create and test the large supercavitating weapons I introduce in the books. Long-range (450 nm) with dual propulsion and a 2,000 kilo warhead. They are launched from ships (too big for subs), land and air and cruise at apoximately 50 knots and have a terminal, rocket-powered speed of 500 knots. Sophisticated sonar and acoustic target acquiition and employing digital terrain mapping of the sea floor to navigate. At the terminal rocket speed, have about a 20 mile range after having arrived in the target area from much further away.

As modeled, they wreak havoc on our CBG's and other escorts.

In the books we ulitamtely develop counter technologies, but the surprize introduction of these weapons at the start of hostitilities with China decimates our large Phibron and CBG response to an invasion by N. Korea and effectively moves us out of the western Pacific to begin with.

The owner of the Haproon HQ site has my books referenced on his site links page under literature HERE.

Yes, I can imagine, from my time with the simulation, that a sophisticated torpedo with the ability to run at 500kts for a 15-20 mile terminal phase would be extremely ugly.

I really need to get your books, don't I? ;-)

Dang reading stack just grows and grows. It's "Arrogance" by Bernard Goldberg this week, a short, fast read.

450 nm range? Heck, most cruise missiles don't go that far. What sort of target acquistion does it have, and what gives it the mid course correction? The torp must be the size of an ICBM...
Just a question: how does a super-cavitating torp track a target in its terminal phase? I would think that the cavitation would interfere with any sensor system, even a laser.