Author Topic: Mark 48 Torp (Read 719 times)

Chairboy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:17:57 PM »

The first 'explosion' is actually the pressure wave transmitted through the water from the 1 explosion. What looks like the second part is actually the rest of the first (and only explosion) to reach the surface.

Swager · « **Reply #16 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:23:14 PM »

Yea, MK48 torpedos are something else, even when you have to sleep next to one.

Chairboy · « **Reply #17 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:28:56 PM »

I read that they can be steered manually while hooked up via cable. I got to see and touch one when I visited the USS Honolulu (688), that was pretty dang cool.

Mathman · « **Reply #18 on:** January 07, 2004, 07:24:05 PM »

Well, any non-moving, unmanned, and obsolete destroyer is screwed for sure!

Dux · « **Reply #19 on:** January 07, 2004, 08:44:43 PM »

Cool, Chairboy... I've been on the Dallas, Providence, and Hartford as a visitor. Great memories.

AKIron · « **Reply #20 on:** January 07, 2004, 08:45:34 PM »

Oh, of course, duh.