Safety Features on Wireguided Torpedoes?
 

Can anyone answer this question: Do American and/or Russian wireguided torpedoes have a preset feature that limits the running range of the torpedo if the wire should break?

Thank you.

Cheers,
David

sorry to say but I'm nearly certain that info is well into the realm of classified.

Yeah. I could say, but I can't say. :-j

when they say "no comment" take it as a "yes, you are correct". If we can have a robot navigate mars completely on it's own, a torpedo should be able to do almost anything.

Re: Safety Features on Wireguided Torpedoes?
 

The wire has nothing to do with the range. However, the wire can be used to change safety features after TOF.

The torpedo shuts down a few basic ways.

1. It runs out of gas.

2. It explodes.

3. We shut it down.

4. It shuts itself down. I can't tell you why it would, but there are a LOT of reasons why, and we control most of them.

The length of the wire has nothing to do with shutdown. If you lose the wire to topredo continutes to run until it runs out of gas or explodes.

Hmm, is there a clever way to create a shutdown doctrine that doesn't rely on Truth data? Probably not, but if there is....

There is no way to have a sensible preset runoutlength using the doctrine system and the presets that we have.