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Originally Posted by Caseck
Really all I'm hearing is a bunch of naysaying, and nobody is decisively able to defeat what evidence I've posited.
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Ummm... what evidence? Any photos (besides that grainy little one in the webpage you linked to - which, by the way, confirms the oscillation I mentioned?) Animations? Videos? Any real numbers for us to sink our teeth into? Or just a bunch of barely supported hot air?
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Originally Posted by Caseck
The most I will grant you is that this is an unknown, and deserves better scrutiny.
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You will grant
us? Wow, that's
very magnanimous of you
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Originally Posted by Caseck
The idea that a torpedo would somehow OUTRUN the shockwave of an underwater detonation is patently false, and defies physics.
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A somewhat-deeper-than-cursory scan of the thread will show that nobody mentioned anything about trying to outrun a shockwave from a detonation prior to this mention...
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Originally Posted by Caseck
Oscillations in the pressure wave?
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Why, yes! From the very link you posted:
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- Subsidiary pulses when the shock wave is reflected from the seabed and the surface.
- Water displacement in the vicinity of the charge
- Low frequency bubble pulses; caused by the bubble left by the explosion oscillating under the action of hydrostatic pressure.
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Why would this matter after the first shattering wavefront?
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Got any figures on how far that shattering wavefront travels for a given quantity of a given explosive for a detonation at a given depth? Or for what distance it retains that "shattering" characteristic? Seems to me, that's the magic number we're looking for... how far away does one torpedo have to be from another to be safe (i.e. still capable of performing its mission) if one of them detonates?
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How would this make an explosion LESS deadly?
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I don't recall anyone mentioning that it would, or even implying the same.
The naysaying you hear is the open discussion and speculation that we all engage in here, over a variety of topics. Not many of us are experts in these hobbies we hold so dear (though some of us have more knowledge and experience in these things than others), so cut us a break. You imply that we haven't proven you wrong, when you haven't proven yourself right. Why don't you go ask the Navy for about 100lbs of PBXN-103 and stage a test, then come back with the results :P
TG