Longshot torpedo

[ASWnut101]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

I see...now its up for the submarines to look for a counter weapon for these kinds of attacks.

I suppose there really is none. You (realistically, yet) cannot detect an aircraft when you are deeper than ~80 feet, so this weapon would almost be like an ASROC, just dropped from aircraft instead of ship-launched.

And anyone who plays DW knows that you wont detect a ship-launched ASROC without a "lucky eye" and a periscope. And a sub at periscope depth is a sub that is visually detected by an aircraft.

I suppose if the aircraft drops it accurately enough with the torpedo in the "circle pattern" (within the no-escape area of the Mk-54), the sub is toast, unless they have some good counter-measures and a lot of luck.(active and passive).

Any type of new countermeasure for this would be an interesting sight to see.

[Letum]

Only three million dollars?!?!

Now thats an investment!

[ASWnut101]

:rotfl:

True. Seeing how the Navy uses some xx Billion dollars for each "project" (of each, how many never made it to production?). This shall go down in history.