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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Huh?? the "Best torpedo in the world"?
If the Hout is being used by a PTG then Harpoons can deal with the platform from beyond its range, if its from a sub than MK 48s and ASROCs can deal with the platfrom from beyond its range.
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Reminds me of a sea story ... this one is true, (don't give me that look)
I was just a young 19 year old sonarman on the USS Salmon SS-573 diesel boat back in the spring of 64 ... yes 44 years ago. We were testing the first subroc to be fired from a submerged platform, in this case it was the USS Permit SSN-594 stationed off San Clemente Island which is just off the coast of Southern California.
We were about fifty miles down range when the captain came on the 1mc and said, "Attention all hands the Navy is testing a new weapon called SUBROC ... it's suppose to come out of the Permit like a torpedo and come up to the surface and back down fifty miles later and then be a torpedo again".
The captain then snorts and says, "If anyone hears anything let me know"
Evidently the captain started his speech about the same time they fired it and no sooner did these words come out of his mouth that we were then rocked by a large "bam".
That sucker hit us broadside and after we came back in we had to go to drydock, because it put a four inch dent in the saddle tanks.
This ain't no lie ... I was there.
geetrue