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To: chopperman
I found the following pretty wild:


On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).

It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.

It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod" and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.

Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".


Something with that kind of performance would require nuclear propulsion too!

53 posted on 11/17/2015 10:52:53 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous
travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps". BS!!! Anything traveling that fast would make so much noise it would make a death metal band seem quiet.
80 posted on 11/21/2015 4:32:13 PM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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