Posted on 10/27/2016 5:49:46 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Chi-Ping
“The Shkval torpedo remains one of the top-secret Russian military designs.”
Yes there is a picture of it
If history proves anything at all, it’s that governments are always fighting the last war.
World War III, now in its twentieth year, is a fight of ideologies, and the West is losing. Badly.
Actually, if I wanted a carrier killer, it would be one like the Chinese are supposed to have, OR a long range skimmer drone that drops trou (wings) and becomes a superfast torpedo in the end game totally switching from detection, positioning and targeting to a completely different mode.
If it is at all nuke capable, the carrier would be dead.
My question is why we don’t already have such a weapon?
Too bad our corrupt political machine decided to ignore the Constitution.
Yeah, but we've got trans-gender bathrooms now so every thing's cool...OK?
why would we want a short range non-homing noisy torp when we have the Mk48 ADCAP?
That right there is a John Deere tater digger.
Designing? Bet they already have it.
It looks like the first three bells produce a robust gas jacket around the torpedo, and the fourth one (the front one) can be tilted for steering, like the swash plate in a helicopter rotor. You can see one of two actuating rods, the other is blocked from view.
The front one must produce an intentional asymmetry in the gas jacket, allowing for some directional control. It’s probably not very much but — at the speeds that thing is supposed to move — you wouldn’t need very much.
That’s it then, cancel every future carrier build project. Lets go home. The Navy is finished. Obsolete. Let drones take care of us. /sarc
Unless it is nuclear tipped, one torpedo is not gong to kill a 95,000 tonne CVN. If in the future navies are firing nuclear weapons at each other then most all of the cities of the earth would be nuclear waste lands. So who cares?
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!
A rocket-boosted, super-cavitating torpedo.
I didn’t mean to imply that it was a one-shot/one-kill torpedo, but that multiple torpedoes would be able to strike the carrier before it or its escorts could react and, if not sinking it outright, would so badly damage it to make it unfit for combat operations.
FReeper Jeff Head wrote a novel about our future war with China.
In it, China developed super fast torpedoes that loitered and laid in wait.
When we developed countermeasures, the Chinese reprogrammed their torpedoes to go jump out of the water at the last second, go airborne, and hit from above.
I just referenced Dragon’s Fury!
Good call!
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