Somewhere on the net I read about supercavitation and there was stated that first theoretical thinking and patents about supercavtorps was already done at the end of 19. century.
I have a book about Ohrdruf/Jonastal (the area in Thuringia which is beliefed was one of the places where secret high tech stuff was developed in underground caves and factories at the end of ww2). In this book there is a statement from someone who worked in on of the factories in the area and he told besides other stuff something about a "waterchanel in which were testet these new 'underwaterrockets".
Then I have found this statment:
Quote:
"...The American Supercav and the Russian VA-111 Shkval are both high-speed supercavitating torpedoes, 250 mph class (more recently, there are also the English MK70 SpearFish TL8 and the German Barracuda). ..."
Posted by: tokamak at July 22, 2005 06:16 AM
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001688.html
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