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shipkiller1 · 10-04-18, 08:21 PM

With all the talk about the Shkval, you have to stop the scare mongering and do a little critical thinking...

It is NOT an ASW weapon.

Fine, you have a 300kt super-cavitating weapon. Good for straight shots only.

Since it is super-cavitating, it creates so much self noise that any acoustic package you place in it would be USELESS. Hence not for ASW work.

You would have to have a Very, Very precise target solution to use it in an ASW environment. And that solution is only in the X/Y geometry, not in Depth. It is very, very, very, (can I say it again?) very hard to determine what the specific target depth is.

10-04-18, 08:21 PM	#5
shipkiller1 Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 136 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	With all the talk about the Shkval, you have to stop the scare mongering and do a little critical thinking... It is NOT an ASW weapon. Fine, you have a 300kt super-cavitating weapon. Good for straight shots only. Since it is super-cavitating, it creates so much self noise that any acoustic package you place in it would be USELESS. Hence not for ASW work. You would have to have a Very, Very precise target solution to use it in an ASW environment. And that solution is only in the X/Y geometry, not in Depth. It is very, very, very, (can I say it again?) very hard to determine what the specific target depth is.