Mk-48 torpedo vs destroyer

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Comment count is 14

Syd Midnight - 2007-11-23

Now I can understand the people who said a mk-48 could probably own a battleship.

FABIO2

- 2007-11-23

Is it a frigate, destroyer, or battleship? Make up your mind.

Udderdude

- 2007-11-23

It's a pile of rubble now.

TimbolinoBilchard

- 2007-11-24

It used to be a frigate, the HMAS Torrens.

Also, saying you're most advanced submarine in the Australian Navy is probably like saying you're the best athlete at the Special Olympics.

Syd Midnight - 2013-06-19

It was a P_N thing. I ignorantly said that battleships weren't obsolete because they could take a few torpedo/missile hits, but an actual submariner assured me that a Mk48 is no WW2 torpedo, and is more than capable of doing the job.

Camonk

- 2007-11-23

The most advanced submarine in the Royal Australian Navy... So the only one? Hah hah! Or the only one without a screen door? BAM!

I'm sorry, Australia. You actually seem like a lovely country and I'm sure your military is quite puissant.

Wonko the Sane

- 2007-11-23

DAMN!

If you look you can see her back get broke before the water even gets disturbed....

garcet71283

- 2007-11-24

Actually it technically was the water that broke the ships back.

The torpedoe detonates underneath sending a pressure wave to rip the ship apart.

Caminante Nocturno

- 2007-11-24

I don't want to see the military as an extension of my manhood, but they always make it so difficult not to.

Jimmy Labatt

- 2007-11-24

Holy shit the torpedo made that ship look like one of those snap-together models

FABIO2 - 2007-11-30

This is also why I don't believe it when people say aircraft carriers are still viable weapons in the missile age.

Repomancer

- 2008-06-27

That's why they travel in a carrier group, surrounded by destroyers and things. You can't torpedo something if your submarine can't get near it.

Namor

- 2008-06-25

Awesome, thanks Syd. Just as I described over on poe-news, the explosion forces the midships up, then it falls down into the area where water has been briefly pushed aside. For a rigid ship of this size, such a "backbreaker" is completely fatal, and the size of the vessel is no defense against a direct hit.

j lzrd / swift idiot

- 2008-06-27

Hell of a nice kaplooey. We'll have to think twice about getting into a war with Australia...

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