Torpedo vs Warship - Warship loses! :) (large pics 56K'rs beware!)

[SUBMAN1]

Some good pics of what modern torps do.

-S

http://ueba.net/hosted_pages/Torpedo-vs-Warship-20060614.php

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_01.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_02.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_03.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_04.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_05.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_06.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_07.jpg

http://media.ueba.com.br/0606/torpedo_warship/torpedo_08.jpg

[Type941]

Very Sh3-esque!

[Yahoshua]

Wow....do you know what type of torpedo was used?

[SUBMAN1]

Wow....do you know what type of torpedo was used?

Nope, but I could guess - that was either a Russian 65cm, or a Mk48! :) Not that this helps answer your question!

The lack of weapons systems on the ship points to it being a MK48 however. I am not sure the class of the ship in question, but the lack of weapons systems makes it most likely western in design, and being that, the western heavyweight is most likely the mk 48.

-S

[Yahoshua]

That rise in the bow is an intertesting design........Btitish maybe?

[SUBMAN1]

That rise in the bow is an intertesting design........Btitish maybe?

Get Kapitan in here. He can probably answer this.

[sonar732]

I'd say an old fashion Type 42 Sheffield class. The torp was either a Stingray or ADCAP.

[Ori_b]

Isnt that the ship hit seen at the end of SUB COMMAND intro movie?The ripple moving along the hull is amazing.

[UglyMowgli]

It was the Australian HMS Farcomb (Collins class submarine ) who sink the Torrens (a river class destroyer) the 14 june 1999 with a Mk-48 torpedo.

[Oberon]

http://navysite.de/lph/lph3_sinkex.jpg

USS Okinawa sinkex - June 6th 2002

[Kapitan]

The ship is HMAS torrens sunk by collins class submarine if any of you have sub command still them please look at the main start up video as its the same one.

As for russian sinkex's none have realy been publicised, apart from one with a nuclear weapon on the novaya zemlya coast in a place called black harbour.

[Linton]

Modern torpedoes are designed to explode under the keel .The explosion creates a pressure bubble which breaks the back of the ship as the photographs show.Here is a wiki entry about the ship:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Torrens_(DE-53)

[Oberon]

In a similar way, most SAMs are designed to explode just by the aircraft to litter it with debris as opposed to actual impact IIRC.

[Linton]

Oberon,that is why they are called missiles,they are designed to miss.Instead they are meant to explode near the target showering it with shrapnel

[tycho102]

I think there's a video of a Harpoon nailing a ship, and they used the keel-shot option with it. Saw it years ago, but it looks pretty much like that torpedo hit.

[Linton]

Harpoon impact:
http://web.umr.edu/~rogersda/military_service/Harpoon%20impact.jpg
it comes from a p3 drivers website.

[Linton]

Harpoon videos here:http://www.strikenet.js.mil/201/harpoon/harpoon-video.asp
They take a while to load.

[Kapitan]

I have only realy seen a few pictures of the SS-N-19 missile in sinkex trials, but i will say makes the harpoon look like a matchstick if you put them together up close :D.

[diver]

And goodbye ex-HMAS Torrens.

If only more warships ended their lives doing such a service, I hate the "artificial reef" craze that seems to be gripping governments.