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From: rcm@mtuxo.att.com (R Craig Montero)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Torpedoes (was Reloading)
Keywords: Mk48, CCS
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.025101.10705@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 02:51:01 GMT
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From: rcm@mtuxo.att.com (R Craig Montero)
In article <1990Jul9.023926.10161@cbnews.att.com> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude)) writes:

>In article <1990Jul6.032915.28154@cbnews.att.com> al.weaver@rose.uucp writes:
>>So that's why I can only fire one torpedo at a time in 688 Attack
>>Sub! 
Just a brief point about the game (if the moderator permits), you are
able to fire a salvo of four torpedoes in the version I have used.
Be sure you fill all four torpedo tubes on the weapons panel.

>... that most firings were done in wire-guided modes to
>allow operator control. (In the case of the Mk48, the operator can
>also receive the torpedo sonar information.) Radical maneuvers or
>purposely cutting the wires (ie reloading the tube) can cause the
>link to be severed, in which case, I assume the torpedo reverts to a
>homing mode. (The Mk48 has two wires to lower to possibility of 
>accidental link loss.) 
During the summer of '76 while serving as a middie on a 637 long
hull boat, we were equipped with the then brand new and classified
Mk48 torpedo. At that time the weapon was only launched in the wire
guided mode and due to limitations of the fire control system only
two torpedoes could be in the water at a time. Of course, based on
the contractor's information, one Mk48 would take out anything up to
the Kiev class cruiser 8-), so there would never be any need to
launch more than one at any given target.

R. Craig Montero
AT&T Bell Labs
mtuxo!rcm

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