Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!amdcad!military From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Torpedoing Battleships Message-ID: <1991May24.030512.9324@amd.com> Date: 23 May 91 20:09:37 GMT References: <1991May23.054849.13718@amd.com> Sender: military@amd.com Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22 Approved: military@amd.com From: phil@brahms.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Tony Buckland writes: >In the debate over whether or not Rodney torpedoed Bismarck, I >note the side issue emerging of whether surface-ship-launched >torpedos did any damage to Bismarck. Are modern torpedos >available in a specialized type for this kind of armor-piercing >role, in the same way that tanks carry rounds specifically >designed to penetrate the armor of other tanks? Actually, battleships don't have armored bottoms for a couple of reasons: 1) their designers realize that water carries the force too well for armor to be effective 2) probably battleships stopped being useful around the time that torpedoes became reasonable effective. -- The media is in the business of distorting people's perception of reality, by emphasising the out of the ordinary.