Toxn Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Torpedoes, am I right? I mean, they're essentially 19th-century steampunk guided missiles: all miniature steam engines (hellooo wet heaters), gleaming brass and mechanical control systems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvEyiVby9A Amazingly, these things have spend a productive 150-year career being worked on and refined, and still haven't gone out of style. Best of all, they do this: Share your love for the torpedo here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Woof, just realised that my English was stronk with that title. Oh well, too busy sperging over whether I could build a pendulum and hydrostat control unit at home to care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Lots of words. (Regarding the history of USN Torpedo development among others.) http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/jolie/part1.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Anti-torpedoes! This one is "Paket-E/NK", can intercept torpedoes at ranges from 100 meters to 800 meters. Random photos: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 It's flywheel driven? LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 An early attempt to get rid of bubble trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 An early attempt to get rid of bubble trail. That's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'm surprised it worked, you need a lot of energy stored for any reasonable range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 The 19th century torpedo is a well known predator of Kriegsmarine vessels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 That's pretty cool. Surprisngly effective too, as Lost pointed out, Both the Blucher when it sank and the Lutzow when it nearly broke in half but somehow made it back to safety were taken completely by surprise, they thought the Norwegians set up a minefield not realizing they actually had underwater launch tubes for the outdated Whitehead designs which were what actually sunk the Blucher, or at least highly sped it up. (The Lutzow was actually Torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Spearfish however while retreating.) They never had a clue what actually happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 They never had a clue what actually happened. They should have realized that it was the inevitable consequences of trying to force a narrow strait without good intel and the semantics were somewhat superfluous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 They should have realized that it was the inevitable consequences of trying to force a narrow strait without good intel and the semantics were somewhat superfluous. Yeah but this was the Kriegsmarine, they weren't exactly known for their prowess in strategy or tactics, or "making good decisions" in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted July 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 {Puts it in the OP, is ignored} Damn asians thanamatic porcelain birds, taking our gudpoasts.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Mark 16 Torpedo. With a warhead weight consisting of 1,260lbs of either Torpex or HBX (Both incredibly effective underwater explosives), It is by and large not only the most powerful conventional torpedo ever deployed by the USN, but by any navy period. Although in service by 1943, It's not known whether or not any were actually used in combat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 {Puts it in the OP, is ignored} Damn asians thanamatic porcelain birds, taking our gudpoasts.... Weird. I wonder why the youtube URL didn't parse into the video-macjicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 To be fair, Colli doesn't even look Asian in his Lich Human form. He looks like a member of the Greater Finnish Empire or something. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 And, for Colli, we obviously want to go bigger then conventional torpedoes, so.... The Mark 45 Nuclear Torpedo! And an old video intended for submarine crews who may use it. In Action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 To be fair to the Krauts, trading a couple of cruisers for an entire European country is a pretty good deal. You can debate the wisdom of invading, conquering and garrisoning Norway in the grand scheme of things. But I wouldn't exactly portray it as an "LOL Germany, Y you so bad at war?" when they sealed of the entirety of Scandanavia in a few weeks and did so almost on a whim or afterthought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Problem is less the whole getting their cruiser group beat up thing and more the whole "and then they just did it without taking the risks and it worked fine" thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 To be fair to the Krauts, trading a couple of cruisers for an entire European country is a pretty good deal. You can debate the wisdom of invading, conquering and garrisoning Norway in the grand scheme of things. But I wouldn't exactly portray it as an "LOL Germany, Y you so bad at war?" when they sealed of the entirety of Scandanavia in a few weeks and did so almost on a whim or afterthought. To be fair, if the USN did it with their much better doctrine, trained sailors and better ships, they could've done it much faster without losing a single ship (and possibly arrive before the Norewegian royal family evacuated, which was one of their objectives the KM failed to achieve.) .....Assuming the USN wanted to invade Norway for whatever reason. Edit: Plus, the USN had ships to spare even if something did go wrong, the KM had nothing really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Somewhat related to Torpedoes. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwari1/p/venturer864.htm The story of the HMS Venturer sinking U-864, the only time in history a Submarine has sunk an enemy Submarine while both vessels were submerged and running. (this is made more impressive by the fact that this was done without the use of guided torpedoes.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Chinese Yu-6, standard PLAN "heavy" torpedo for submarines. What makes it significant is that, by the standards of a torpedo, it has an incredibly advanced set of electronics and a very strong processor, though it's supposedly not as reliable in certain conditions as the less powerful, but more tested ones used in the USN's Mark 48 for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 I had not, until reading this article, realized how bad US torpedoes were in WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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