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Originally Posted by The Bandit
If you were talking about any newer boat with a spherical sonar array in the bow you would be right. However the Skipjacks and all the boomers before the Ohio class still had their torpedo tubes in the bow.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0858820.jpg
You can see the torpedo tubes right on the bow in this picture of the USS Scamp which was another Skipjack class. |
Yup, thanks for the correction. If you look at the Scorpion picture all you see of the bow is from the forward escape trunk and back. The tubes would be located forward and down of that point........