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?
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