At sea three times and already they broke it...

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

...and from americans as well. Did you know that their standard issue light weight ASW torpedo is an improved* copy of Mark 46?


*"improved" in this case means merging best features of stolen american and european torpedo technologies

I assume you mean the YU-7? Joke's on them, the Mk-46 is a little piece of junk. ;P They didn't technically reverse engineer that one, we basically told them how to build them and sold them a bunch.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by magicstix

I assume you mean the YU-7? Joke's on them, the Mk-46 is a little piece of junk. ;P They didn't technically reverse engineer that one, we basically told them how to build them and sold them a bunch.

You are correct. I forgot you handed them over to Chinese (which in my opinion wasn't smartest of thigns to do) but I'm in understanding that Chinese were supposed to do only assembly work and didn't get full tech transfer.

Its true that in today's standards 46 mod 2 is somewhat obsolete technology like (in my understanding) Alenia's A244-S. Intresting question is how capable combination of those technologies really is? Also, how much Chinese have put in their own little modifications?

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by magicstix

...we basically told them how to build them and sold them a bunch.

I thought we left some at Cam Rah Bay by mistake. I also heard a fishing trawler picked one up but that might have been a MK 48.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

I thought we left some at Cam Rah Bay by mistake. I also heard a fishing trawler picked one up but that might have been a MK 48.

Their program got started by them picking up a few that they found, and ended with us selling them several hundred MK-46v2s as well as providing support on how to build them.