[usconservative]

Experts fear the 79ft-long torpedoes – dubbed Poseidon – could be detonated underwater to cause a radioactive tsunami and threaten coastal cities with waves up to 300ft high.

Given the fact submarines aren't the fastest, how would anyone on a sub survive the deployment and underwater detonation of one of these torpedoes? It'd be a suicide mission wouldn't it?

[Zuriel]

**Given the fact submarines aren’t the fastest, how would anyone on a sub survive the deployment and underwater detonation of one of these torpedoes? It’d be a suicide mission wouldn’t it?**

You may be using old fashioned torpedo capability thinking.

These monsters are probably ‘smart’, and have a hundred mile range (or more?), maybe hold position for days (weeks or months?), then finish the job, or abort and return to ‘mother’.

[Mariner]

“It’d be a suicide mission wouldn’t it?”

No.

It has a range of well over 1,000 miles as it is nuclear powered.

It’s designed to take out military ports and facilities.

[Travis McGee]

Depends on the range and speed of the torpedoes. Also, they can be set to go into a circling pattern for very long periods while the mother sub evades.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Sounds like it. Are they really that long and how in the hell would you really use them?