By: fightingirish - 22nd July 2005 at 13:10
Barracuda
Good, that this Bunker buster doesn’t have a small nuclear bomb to detroy the target.
The german company Diehl BGT Defence is/was also working on high-speed torpedoes called Barracuda, that reduce friction by creating a gas bubble called a supercavity.
Sources in German: 06.01.2001 –
Weltweite Spitzenposition erhalten und ausbauen
Technologie superkavitierender Unterwasserraketen
http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/content/images/04_lifestyle_magazine/wunderwelt_wissen/WW_Torpedo_1.PDF
http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/content/images/04_lifestyle_magazine/wunderwelt_wissen/WW_Torpedo_2.PDF
http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/content/images/04_lifestyle_magazine/wunderwelt_wissen/WW_Torpedo_3.PDF
http://www.prosieben.de/imperia/md/content/images/04_lifestyle_magazine/wunderwelt_wissen/WW_Torpedo_4.PDF
By: sferrin - 22nd July 2005 at 07:19
The RAT-52, rocket powered torpedo was dropped from modified Tu-16s. In fact one was dropped at the wrong angle and exited the water again and flew to a height of 500m for a range of over 3km. (The RAT-52 entered service in 1952 BTW).
That’s actually pretty damn funny if you think about it.
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd July 2005 at 05:05
I wasn’t aware the Shkval was dropped from aircraft. And it’s not like nobody had ever heard of supercavitation before that either. But then it’s not like you have a penchant for facts.
The RAT-52, rocket powered torpedo was dropped from modified Tu-16s. In fact one was dropped at the wrong angle and exited the water again and flew to a height of 500m for a range of over 3km. (The RAT-52 entered service in 1952 BTW).
By: sferrin - 21st July 2005 at 13:31
An idea they pinched off the Shkval torpedo and other Russian and Soviet torpedos since the RAT-52.
I wasn’t aware the Shkval was dropped from aircraft. And it’s not like nobody had ever heard of supercavitation before that either. But then it’s not like you have a penchant for facts.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st July 2005 at 07:48
The design builds on the Navy’s work on high-speed torpedoes that reduce friction by creating a gas bubble called a supercavity.
An idea they pinched off the Shkval torpedo and other Russian and Soviet torpedos since the RAT-52.
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July 21, 2005 at 2:02 am