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Old 04-02-08, 04:01 AM   #19
keltos01
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The weapon is the famous (or infamous) Russian VA-111 Shkval rocket torpedo and its variants, capable of speeds of more than 200 knots underwater. This speed is achieved by the rocket pushing the sharply tapering, flat-tipped torpedo so fast that a vacuum bubble forms around the body of the weapon, greatly reducing water resistance -- the process, for the uninitiated, is called supercavitation.

hardly a wwII torpedo... did you guys see, in a config somewhere, that theere was already a slot for a "missile submarine" ? so next you'll get the cold war game, AND the torpedo pictured above, which was sold to china btw....

more info :
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/...hkval,,00.html
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