Those tankers are going to be guarded like an Amish’s girls virginity on prom night! They will have F/A-18 and F-15 escort plus EW support to jam any attackers. :yep:

Well, the plan unveils, now they also have flying boats.

If they can make a little flying boat powerfull enough to carry the torpedo, they got themselves a midget-flying sub.

AL wins, it's suicidal, afterall.

That was just one of the good shows that Jon Stewart does ever week night. His show starts at 10 pm our time and is repeated again at Midnight, 9am and 7 pm the next day. And if you missed it on TV you can catch it on the web site.

The F-14's shouldn't be a problem. They require a lot of maintenance, and they didn't get spare parts for a long time. If they flew a lot, that would be a problem. If they didn't fly often, the pilots probably aren't very experienced.

Does anyone have reliable information as to whether the Shkval can turn after being fired as in DW, or does the sub need to be properly pointed before it can shoot?

From what ive seen of the Skhval and i have seen one first hand in a russian weapons museam, id doubt it could turn simply because it most probably disintergrate.

Il get some links in a few.

Whoops, I didn't mean turn when it was supercavitating, that would get messy :ping: . I mean: if the sub fires the torpedo, can the torpedo turn towards its target before it starts to supercavitate?

once it is ejected out of the submarine it takes a few seconds for the motor to kick in then it just runs, and once its been ejected untill that motor kicks in it has no power of its own, and there fore cannot turn.

Some useful infomation on the shkval

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/m...row/shkval.htm

http://www.periscope.ucg.com/mdb-smp...w0004768.shtml

The diagrammes are useful if nothing else.


It was believed and still is that one of these helped sink the submarine kursk, but we know it was a 65-76 "fat girl" torpedo that did sink her, and it was not the skhval.

Kursk did have these weapons on board at the time, this is why initialy the russian's said to the rescue divers do not go forward (once they had seen the damage).

cheomly made this missile or part of they are renown for there very high powered and very powerful missiles, they made the shipwreck and also the sun burn which are seen as thee most powerfullest anti ship missiles in any navys arsenal (more powerful than a tomahawk).

Shkval is a good air craft carrier killer that is what it was designed for but it wasnt realy designed to carry a conventional warhead, it was ment to carry a nuclear warhead.

The submarine was to get in close and fire a few of these at a carrier, once it had cleared a path to get to it (ie torpedoing the escorts).

The shkval is not a good weapon ok its revolutionary it super cavitates but every one knows where you are once you fired it.