
Posted: 6/18/2002 7:37:41 PM EDT
I've been doing a lot of reading of Tom Clancy novels lately and am currently about 3/4 through Red Storm Rising. Lots of naval warfare in the story with many mentions of the mk-48 adcap torpedo..
Sooo, did a little web search and found this:
[url]http://www.navy.gov.au/fegs/submarines/images/sinkex.asf[/url]
I had no idea how powerful those things were!!
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That'll leave a mark!
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That's PERSEC, not OPSEC. -AvengeR15
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OUCH!
Is it just me, or was there a secondary explosion?
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Why buy the cow when the neighbor's cat is in heat?
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Yes! I noticed it too. I don't know what it was. If it was a magazine or fuel going off, there would have been fire.
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That's PERSEC, not OPSEC. -AvengeR15
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Humm.... if it was an old ship... it might have been the boiler going.... ya never know if they brought it out on it's own power....
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"I believe in love. I believe in cancer... They are both diseases that need a cure."
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The first "explosion" appears to be the shockwave, and the second is the actual explosion.
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"B" of B&T Ammolabs
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It's a freakin' toy for christs sake!
AB [:O]
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2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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This is how most of the better anti-surface ship torpedoes work. They actually explode under the ship and blow the water away from the keel. The resulting strain, combines with the explsoive damage, breaks her back at the detonation site.
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Originally Posted By brouhaha:
The first "explosion" appears to be the shockwave, and the second is the actual explosion. View Quote Originally posted byFatMan: This is how most of the better anti-surface ship torpedoes work. They actually explode under the ship and blow the water away from the keel. The resulting strain, combines with the explsoive damage, breaks her back at the detonation site. View Quote |
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"We live in an era where nothing is a surprise and everything is an outrage." - Rush Limbaugh
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Remember a few years ago there was an abandoned ship off the Oregon coast? The Navy tried burning the fuel on board, but that didn't work out. Plan B was to tow it to deep water and torpedo it, but the tow line broke. The ship washed up on the shore, and the CG detonated a bunch of C4 to burn the oil. It was the ship that would not die.
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